The Magnetic Fields - Distortion reviews
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| Musicomh |
 It's four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a full-on examination of the past....full text |
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| Guardian |
| Some bands are so postmodern they deserve a category all of their own. Consider the Slovenian faux-totalitarians Laibach, whose oeuvre includes a very worrying version of Queen's One Vision (aka Geburt Einer Nation), as well as Teutonic retoolings of every song from the Beatles' album Let It Be. Then there is Gravelands, a 1997 album by an Irish Elvis impersonator called the King. It conjures up a bizarre alternate universe in which Presley covered songs associated with such deceased rock royalty as Kurt Cobain, Ian Curtis and AC/DC's Bon Scott. While we're here, what about such unreleased curios as Ryan Adams' acoustic blues take on the Strokes' Is This It, or Primal Scream's version of the Jam's Non-Stop Dancing, done in the style of the Velvet Underground in back-handed recognition of the fact that Lou Reed and co are supposedly one of Paul Weller's least favourite groups?...full text |
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| Drownedinsound |
Aloof as a herd of nonplussed camels and even more blackly ironic, Stephin Merritt is a difficult guy to pin, alright. The Magnetic Fields’ lynchpin has even gone on record as saying that “sincerity has no place in popular music, any more than it has in cooking”, which is understandable but also risky, paving the way for the kind of blithely presented formalism which many felt blighted the band’s last collection, perversely titled i.
More so than the titular obfuscations which most immediately mark eighth LP Distortion as a departure from previous work, it’s this trait in Merritt’s songwriting which continues to equally curse and bless the band and will determine opinion on their relative virtues either way....full text |
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