Magnetic Fields

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.