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Fall in Love With The Magnetic Fields All Over Again

February 26, 2008

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They played four sold-out shows at NYC’s Town Hall this weekend and quietly wowed the crowds with their mellow, balanced acoustic sets. We only caught Friday’s performance, but we heard good things about the other nights as well. First of all, Town Hall is a lovely venue, with great acoustics, where everyone gets to sit. They opened with a song of their new album, Distortion, called “California Girls” and followed that immediately with “I Don’t Believe” you from I. We were stoked cause that’s one of our favorites with lines like “You tell me I’m not not cute,” and “You seemed to be in love with me, which isn't very realistic.” Which pretty much sums up exactly why we love The Magnetic Fields so much.

The rest of the night continued to be a nice mix of new songs, old songs, 6ths songs, Gothic Archies songs and Lemony Snicket songs. Claudia Gonson rambled on about this and that, which was entertaining. Stephin Merritt was mostly quiet, except for the occasional witty barb thrown from beneath his lowered cap brim. The highlights in our humble (owning ninety percent of their albums) opinion were “Too Drunk To Dream” with the nice acapella opening, “Sober, life is a prison, shitfaced it is a blessing, sober nobody wants you, shitfaced, they’re all undressing.” Truer words were never sung. And then, of course, their rendition of “The Tiny Goat” which was very sad and consequently funny. Overall, it was a marvelous evening and we highly recommend that you dust off all your old Mag Fields CDs and go pick up the new one. Seriously, we do.

 

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