'Love At The Bottom Of The Sea' will feature 16 tracks - here's the cover art and full tracklisting: (Owls's live under the sea, right? As always I see a number of cheeky song titles!)
01 God Wants Us to Wait
02 Andrew in Drag
03 Your Girlfriend’s Face
04 Born for Love
05 I’d Go Anywhere With Hugh
06 Infatuation (With Your Gyration)
07 The Only Boy in Town
08 The Machine in Your Hand
09 Goin’ Back to the Country
10 I’ve Run Away to Join the Fairies
11 The Horrible Party
12 My Husband’s Pied-a-Terre
13 I Don’t Like Your Tone
14 Quick!
15 All She Cares About Is Mariachi
There's isn't any advanced audio available for 'Love At The Bottom Of The Sea' yet so we shall revist (just) a few (there are many!) of the band's finest past moments. 'I Thought You Were My Boyfriend' was a single from the 2004 album 'i' - this is the excellent (and totally revamped) 'Extended Mix' that was released on 12" and cd single. I love the line 'Some guys have a beer and they'll do anything' :) ... Enjoy!
In addition to the new album - The Magnetic Fields have also announced a new world tour! They will perform in Vancouver on March 18th at The Vogue - tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at the theatre box office, Red Cat, and Zulu. As this web thingy is world wide here are all the tour dates announced so far:
In North America:
March 6 - HUDSON, NY | Helsinki Hudson
March 7 - PHILADELPHIA, PA | Union Transfer
March 14, 15, 16 - AUSTIN, TX | SXSW
March 18 - VANCOUVER, BC | The Vogue
March 19 - SEATTLE, WA | Neptune Theater
March 20 - SEATTLE, WA | Neptune Theater
March 21 - PORTLAND, OR | Roseland Theater
March 23 - LOS ANGELES, CA | Orpheum Theater
March 24 - OAKLAND, CA | Fox Theater
March 26 - CHICAGO, IL | Vic Theater
March 27 - CHICAGO, IL | Vic Theater
March 28 - IOWA CITY, IA | Englert Theater
March 30 - TORONTO ONT | Sound Academy
March 31 - MONTREAL, QUE | Le National
April 3 - NEW YORK, NY | Beacon Theater
April 6 - BOSTON, MA | Berklee Performance Center
April 7 - BOSTON, MA | Berklee Performance Center
April 9 - WASHINGTON, DC | The 930 Club
April 11 - CARRBORO, NC | Cat's Cradle
April 12 - CARRBORO, NC | Cat's Cradle
April 14 - ATLANTA, GA | Variety Playhouse
In Europe:
11 March - MINEHEAD, UK | All Tomorrow's Parties
24 April - BRIGHTON, UK | Komedia
25 April - LONDON, UK | Royal Festival Hall
27 April - MANCHESTER, UK | Royal Northern College of Music
28 April - DUBLIN, IRELAND | Olympia
29 April - CORK, IRELAND | Cork Opera House
1 May - PORTO, PORTUGAL
2 May - LISBON, PORTUGAL
9 May - OSLO, NORWAY | Rockefeller (Tickets on sale 17 Dec.)
11 May - GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN | Annedalskyrkan
12 May - STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN | Filadelfiakyrkan
14 May - BERLIN, GERMANY | Passionskirche
15 May - HAMBURG, GERMANY | Kampnagel K6
16 May - AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS | De Duif
More European dates are set to be announced - you can keep up with all news on The Magnetic Fields - as well as Stephin Merritt's solo work, and his other bands The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, and The Gothic Archies - on his/ their official website called The House Of Tomorrow here: http://houseoftomorrow.com/index.php
This is my favorite song from the 2008 fuzzed up release 'Distortion', the sound of which was influenced by one of my favorite guitar bands - The Jesus And Mary Chain - and Merritt's lyrics are bang on highlarious. This is 'Too Drunk To Dream' - yeah, I know that feeling... Enjoy!
'Washington D.C.' is one of over five dozen (!) wonderful songs on their 1999 release '69 Love Songs' - who knew you could write so many songs about one thing! :p I love the sincerity in singer Claudia Gonson's voice - it's made me weep on more than one occasion :) Although I've never been to Washington D.C. I have perhaps a distorted view of it - by association as being the centre of some rather dirty politics at times - but Gonson (and of course Merritt's lyrics) make(s) it sound utterly and irresistably beautiful... Enjoy!
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