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Magnetic Fields

By ⋅ January 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Stephin Merritt has a bubblegum goth band (The Gothic Archies), a science fiction electro-pop band (The Future Bible Heroes), a project where every song is sung by a different singer (The 6ths), and a band whose last two releases were a triple album of love songs and an album of songs whose titles begin with the letter “I” (The Magnetic Fields). It’s tempting to call him music’s conceptual artist extraordinaire.

Editors

By ⋅ January 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Illness, death, depression, death, broken bones, more death: on their second album, An End Has a Start, Editors pull no lyrical punches. If the band members were as gloomy as their subject matter, there would be a dark cloud following them around, wreaking havoc on weather systems wherever they toured.

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