On May 15, 2020, the band digitally released the album Quickies-twenty-eight songs under three minutes long-through Nonesuch Records. In 2016, it was announced that the band's eleventh studio album, 50 Song Memoir, would contain fifty songs, akin to the 69 Love Songs concept, one to commemorate each year since Stephin Merritt was born. It began on March 6, the release date of Love at the Bottom of the Sea, and continued for two months. In 2012, the Magnetic Fields celebrated its new album by launching a North American and European tour. Most of the synthesizers on the record didn't exist when we were last using synthesizers." The song " Andrew in Drag" garnered much attention, receiving play from entities such as CBS News and NPR's All Songs Considered. Merritt told fans on his website, "I was very happy to be using synthesizers in ways that I had not done before. This album, compared by Dan Raby to 69 Love Songs, brought back the use of synthesizers. The band released its tenth full-length album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea, on March 6, 2012. The band was chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform a rare festival performance at the All Tomorrow's Parties event that he curated in March 2012 in Minehead, England. It won the Outfest 2010 Grand Jury Prize for Feature Documentary. Shot over a period of 10 years, it discusses the formation of the band, Stephin's friendship with Claudia Gonson, the production of various albums, and Stephin's move to California from New York. It was directed by Kerthy Fix and Gail O'Hara. In 2010, the documentary film Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields made its debut in film festivals around the world. The next album produced would feature synthesizers "almost exclusively". Realism was released in January 2010, concluding what Merritt termed the "no-synth" trilogy (following i and Distortion). According to an article, "To celebrate the release of Distortion, Merritt and the Magnetic Fields played mini-residencies in cities around the country, culminating with six shows at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music." The liner notes claim the album was made without synthesizers. The band's albums i (2004) and Distortion (2008) both followed the album theme structure of 69 Love Songs: the song titles on i begin with the letter (or, in the case of half the songs' titles, the pronoun) "I", whilst Distortion was an experiment in combining noise music with their typically unconventional musical approach. Violinist Ida Pearle makes a brief cameo on "Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side".
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Beghtol, and Gonson, each of whom sings lead on six songs as well as various backing vocals, plus Daniel Handler (who has written under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket) on accordion, and longtime collaborator Christopher Ewen (of Future Bible Heroes) as guest arranger/synthesist. The album features vocalists Shirley Simms, Dudley Klute, L.D. The 1999 triple album 69 Love Songs showcased Merritt's songwriting and lyrical abilities and the group's musicianship, demonstrated by the use of such varied instruments as the ukulele, banjo, accordion, cello, mandolin, flute, xylophone, and the Marxophone, in addition to their usual setting of synthesizers, guitars, and effects. the Bear's Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they were mistakenly billed as Magnetophone, an alias used briefly in that year by Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang of Galaxie 500. The band's first live performance was in 1991 at T.T. With the help of friend Claudia Gonson, who had played in Merritt's band the Zinnias during high school, a live band was assembled in Boston, where Merritt and Gonson lived, to play Merritt's compositions. The band began as Merritt's studio project under the name Buffalo Rome. The band's latest album, Quickies, was released on May 29, 2020. It was followed in the succeeding years by a "no-synth" trilogy: i (2004), Distortion (2008), and Realism (2010). The band's best-known work is the 1999 three-volume concept album 69 Love Songs.
A more traditional band later materialized it is now composed of Merritt, Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol, and John Woo, with occasional guest vocals by Shirley Simms. The single was typical of the band's earlier career, characterized by synthesized instrumentation by Merritt, with lead vocals provided by Susan Anway (and then by Stephin Merritt himself, from the House of Tomorrow EP onwards). The band released their debut single " 100,000 Fireflies" in 1991. Merritt's lyrics are often about love and feature atypical or neutral gender roles, and are by turns ironic, tongue-in-cheek, bitter, and humorous. Merritt is the group's primary songwriter, producer, and vocalist, as well as frequent multi-instrumentalist.
The Magnetic Fields (named after the André Breton/ Philippe Soupault novel Les Champs Magnétiques) are an American band founded and led by Stephin Merritt.
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