The Magnetic Fields: Realism | Pop review

Withering put-downs and gorgeous tunes: the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt is himself once moreThe drawback to making the Album of Your Life is the problem of what to do with your life afterwards. Admittedly, it's a problem most rock and pop artists would love to face, as opposed to the more common dilemma of having made an album so catastrophic that your career options now consist of (a) appearing on a reality show where Gillian McKeith angrily protests the quality of your stools, alongside L...

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