Last year the legendary former Genesis lead-vocalist, Peter Gabriel, released a very interesting cover album titled “Scratch My Back“, recorded at Air Lyndhurst and Real World Studios during the same year, consisting of Gabriel covering twelve songs by various artists, using orchestra and voice rather than normal rock instruments. The album will get released onĀ [...]
“Realism“, the third Magnetic Fields record in the “no-synth” trilogy (following i and Distortion) is slated for a early 2010 release, so evidently a grand North America tour has been announced to support it. Merrit and company can be seen playing their soothing indie pop starting from February, when the tour will kick off in [...]
Artist name: The Magnetic Fields
Album name: Distortion
Label: Nonesuch Records
Gender: Synth Pop/Indie
Release date: January 15, 2008
ZMErating: 7/10
Website: www.houseoftomorrow.com
Highly regarded as one of the most inspired and gifted songwriters of our times, Sthephin Merrit, is less an eccentric, as most people tend to call him, but more of a musical maverick, with a disregard for musical [...]
Friday, January 29, 2010
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