Magnetic Fields: Love At the Bottom of the Sea – review

(Domino)Stephin Merritt can hardly feel aggrieved that critics are constantly rating Magnetic Fields albums against his 1999 magnum opus 69 Love Songs. As he told the Guardian recently, that was the whole point – to make an album so definitive that nothing else could compare, and indeed it still casts a shadow over every new Magnetic Fields release. There are plenty of fine songs here, of course, but the exact same things that made 69 Love Songs such a tour de force – smart namechecks, hype...

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