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Features

Wednesday, January 19 2011

Part 2: From Meklit Hadero to the Old 97's

Slipped Discs continues with the return of a '60s pop heartthrob, the best underappreciated hip-hip album of the year, the resurrection of a legendary '80s band, some great beats from M.I.A. and many more. All records that missed our top 70 list last year.

Wednesday, May 12 2010

Stephin Merritt Won't Be Making Reggaeton Records Any Time Soon

No, he may never make a reggaeton record, but that’s because the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt is too busy soldiering on down his own path, as illustrated in this chat with PopMatters.

Thursday, January 22 2009

Part 2: Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu

From Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu, PopMatters presents our second batch of Slipped Discs, 40 great albums that didn't quite make our year-end list in 2008, but our writers thought belonged there.

Reviews

Monday, January 25 2010

The Magnetic Fields: Realism

Stephin Merritt is an expert at writing songs that work in a timeless pop song way while even highlighting the slipperiness of the song as a means of communication.

Monday, January 14 2008

The Magnetic Fields: Distortion

Distortion is a game, a question, a provocation, a distortion, a fable, a fake, and a collection of pop songs.

Sunday, January 1 1995

Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs

There are times these days where I absolutely hate Stephin Merritt, where I'm overwhelmingly infuriated by his latest work with the Magnetic Fields, the meandering yet singularly-purposed three-disc master opus.