Just this morning, I was thinking about the Magnetic Fields, and specifically about how I haven’t really enjoyed their work since 1999’s inspired
69 Love Songs. While
i had plenty of fine moments, I can’t stand to listen to it anymore. It strikes me as mawkish and false.
Distortion bothered me from the very beginning. There was nothing to hold on to. And though I’m mildly interested in the new one,
Realism, I'm not excited enough to add it to “the list.”
69 Love Songs, however, is something else. “If it were reissued on vinyl,” I thought to myself, “I’d just have to buy it.”
Dammit. The Magnetic Fields’
69 Love Songs is scheduled to be released on April 20. The deluxe box will be limited to 3000 sets, and will feature remastered versions of all 69 compositions, pressed to six 10-inch discs. I need it. Just thinking about it takes me right back to so many sad, quiet, late-night drives along the Jersey Turnpike.
I haven’t seen anything on
the Merge website about this; I heard about it on
the Stereophile Twitter page, in a post from
MBV.
Pitchfork is talking about it, too.
Also, there is this:
69 Love Songs, Illustrated.
