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From Stephen Merritt, leader of the Magnetic Fields (nothing to do with Jean Michel Jarre we assure you), one can legitimately ask: Has it 8 years? Is he autistic? Fond of concepts as dubious as many schoolboy jokes ("Cap or no cap to an album that begins with the letter" I "?" "Cape !*"), Merritt is certainly an anomaly in the landscape Yankee independence.

The Magnetic Fields albums are rarely spectacular, filled with things to throw, but it's almost a detail view of the fact that Merritt wrote some very very great songs, the "69 love songs" would have been even a great album if it had been amputated a small trifle of fifty songs (although there I'll put a smiley but I have my dignity), released in 99, there was already some wonderful things: " epitaph of my heart "," The Book Of Love "(Avoid like the plague recovery soothing that gave Peter Gabriel), "i do not want get over you ", " all my little words ", "the cactus WHERE your heart should be" or what "Blue You" twilight, that sounds like the soundtrack of a nightmare child. Or like Danny Helfman sung by Nick Cave. This is the same.

Their last album released in early 2010, "Realism" is the counterpart of his predecessor "distortion", a tribute to Jesus and Mary Chain, so full of vaporous feedback, but mostly sounded like the Beach Boys electrocuted (formidable " California Girls ). In the end, it was just missed (as always with them in fact). "Realism" was intended precisely designed to reverse, although in truth, nothing changed, except that at Larsen had substituted full of exotic instruments (mandolin, glockenspiel, ukulele ...). Still a great drought , despite the profusion of instruments, always a lot of things we wonder what it doing here, always baritone Merritt, terse as possible yet at times incredibly moving. More importantly, there is a saying of my 20 favorite songs for years 2000, " You Must Be Out Of Your Mind ", an enchanting 3 minutes worth of "chelsea girl" Nico (not so anything).

are still waiting for the great work (which may never come) but whatever, a guy who can speak of Brill Building in his songs or writing stuff that also inspired "you can not go ' Round Just Saying stuff / Because it's pretty / and i no long drink Enough To think you're witty "or" i could listen to all my friends and go out again and pretend it's enough gold i could make a career of Being blue, i "could dress in black and read Camus, smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth like i was 17" deserves ample that he takes our hat.

Vianney G.

* He did it, the album is called "I" ...