The Magnetic Fields – Love At The Bottom Of The Sea – Music Review

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The Magnetic Fields are magnificent. Always have been and probably always will be.

Still best known for 1991’s 100,000 Fireflies single, in this album the band are back on form – back to their mid 90’s best. It’s not that the group have been poor, but when you hit the highs that The Magnetic Fields have, it’s tough to keep hitting them.

They can’t be judged in the way other bands do because other bands pale into insignificance. The Magnetic Fields are very, very good. If you don’t own a copy of their 1999 album ’69 Love Songs’, then your record collection has a hole in it.

Love At The Bottom Of The Sea is an album that is almost The Magnetic Fields by formula. It’s to type, but that type is marvellous. It’s all synth, strings and strums with great subject matter – my favourite track, the electro-jolt of “God Wants Us To wait” tells the story of a religious cock-block. The Magnetic Fields are the thinking man’s Flaming Lips.  Buy this album now – you’ll not regret listening to me.