The Magnetic Fields: Excellent new pop music

Oh, who are you refering to? :P

I love the Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs was one of my top albums as a teen--and had no idea anything new was out--thanks for the heads up. Makes me realize I never checked out Merritt's score for Coraline--is it similar to his pop stuff, does anyone know?

And there's actually a bunch of good pop music out now--Dragonette--the nicest (well that I've met) and best Canadian pop/dance band have a new album about to come out too--I hope they don't draw on the sound of Hello *too* much since it's become their biggest hit, since to Solveig, but... (see, it all somehwo comes back to Madge :P )

Have they gone back to synths? I missed that in their last few recordings... I'll have to track it down--I have an amazon gift card, so hope I can find it on there (yes, I still dislike downloading music I actually expect to like...)

OK, now I *am* excited. I never got why they were largely dropped--I guess maybe to prove they weren't reliant on synths, but that was a huge part of their appeal.

I sorta get that--there's some truth that some of the "fun" of synths ended by the time they were (largely) all patches, etc. I admit, while it's before my time, I still love the late 70s synth work of Moroder/et all best, some of which I hear in their music. Anyway--I ordered the album--it had better be good :P

You'll dig it, eric. Don't forget to snap your fingers, AC.

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Updated On: 4/4/12 at 04:54 PM