Love at the Bottom of the Sea
by Magnetic Fields
  • Record Label: Merge
  • Release Date: Mar 6, 2012
User Score
6.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 22 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 22
  3. Negative: 5 out of 22
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  1. AlexxTrusc
    Mar 31, 2012
    3
    "The Machine in Your Hand" is one of the few compositions on the 15-track album of The Magnetic Fields - "Love At The Bottom Of The Sea", which presents a fairly bearable level. The entire release is just boring - synth pop genre give you a huge range of possibilities, but band seems to forget this and they're exerting childish vocals to the not very diversified base.

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Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 41 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 41
  3. Negative: 1 out of 41
  1. No Ripcord
    May 4, 2012
    70
    Purposefully ridiculous but brilliant.
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  2. Spin
    Mar 26, 2012
    80
    The efficiency of his drollness has grown uncanny, in fact, and the creepiness of its perfection is part of the fun.
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  3. Mojo
    Mar 22, 2012
    60
    Only a slight dearth of killer melodies ... disappoints. [Apr 2012, p.86]
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