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After four full albums and a handful of EPs and singles recorded mostly (if not entirely) by himself, Stephin Merritt introduces a full band on GET LOST. He surrounds his own keyboards and guitar with real drums and percussion, cello, viola, banjo, bass, and ukulele. The results are spectacular. The exquisite arrangements breath new life into Merritt's usual themes of failed romance and world-weary bitterness
"When You're Old and Lonely" sounds thematically of a piece with "The Desperate Things You Made Me Do." But where earlier Magnetic Fields albums would have married both to similar arrangements, GET LOST outfits one with a tasteful, minimal backing and the other with a hypnotic dancefloor vibe. After the release of GET LOST, Merritt (temporarily) turned his attention to a variety of side projects. But the album is one of the crowning achievements of Stephin Merritt's long and varied career.
The Magnetic Fields: Stephin Merritt.
Additional personnel: Natalie Lithwick (spoken vocals); John Woo (guitar, banjo); Sam Davol (cello, flute); Julie Cooper (bass); Claudia Gonson (drums, vocals, ukulele).
Spin (12/95, p.87) - 7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - "...Magnetic Fields albums come off like bubblegum Joy Division, there are reasons for that. Ardor and distance are the pop song's main ingredients. Can you name a better tool for capturing the ambiguities of youthful lust in the age of AIDS?....GET LOST writhes with as many swoony tunes as ever....But it hurts more..."
Alternative Press (2/96, p.62) - "...has the starkness of earlier Ultravox or OMD with none of the pretensions. Merritt simply gushes sentimentality, without shame. And rarely does this kind of ludicrous vulnerability come from someone who can actually write a great song..."
Option (3-4/96, p.112) - "...Merritt's ranking strengths, though, are his unreserved certainty with melody and his surgically precise songwriting..."
Melody Maker (3/16/96, p.41) - "...The Magnetic Fields' appraoch to pop construction is so smart, so obsessive, yet so uninvolved...one of the most honest albums I've heard in months..." Magnetic Fields Get Lost Songs Get Lost Review
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THE WAYWARD BUS was originally released on Popup in 1992. DISTANT PLASTIC TREES was originally released in England on Red Flame in 1991.
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Each CD in this box set is also available separately on Merge (166, 167 & 168).
Originally envisioned as a 100-song stage revue but cut down to 69 songs (as Stephin Merritt explained, "That was the first love-related number I could think of") and released on three CDs under the name of the first of Merritt's many musical projects (also including the 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, and the Gothic Archies), 69 LOVE SONGS is a sprawling masterpiece of alternately romantic and rueful tunes. Where each previous Magnetic Fields albums had a specific musical identity, 69 LOVE SONGS leaps casually through genres that include show tunes, jazz, country, punk, techno, and '80s-style synth pop, somehow managing throughout to sound like no one but the Magnetic Fields. Though the three CDs were originally released as a box set enclosed in a special slipcase with an exclusive booklet, Merge Records also released the three 23-song discs separately as 69 LOVE SONGS, Volumes One, Two and Three.
Includes a 76-page booklet.
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