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- Summary: Synthesizers and Stephin Merritt return to the Magnetic Fields with the first album of new material for the band since 1999's 69 Songs.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Lo-Fi, Indie Electronic, Indie Pop
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You better think of something quick before I don't love you no more Quick! Before I walk out that door Quick! Before it all ends in jeers What a... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 41
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Mixed: 17 out of 41
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Negative: 1 out of 41
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Mar 6, 2012These 15 song-puzzles in 34:20 are sophisticated amusements all, although often the amusement is attenuated and one I get bored with before half its 2:38 is over.
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Mar 6, 2012If there's any particular conceit here, it's Merritt at his wry best, sharpening his pop hooks and keeping songs tightly wound.
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Mar 5, 2012Love at the Bottom of the Sea is an endearing, comfortable offering from a band that will hopefully do 10 more albums.
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Mar 6, 2012The 15-track set reclaims the willfully dinky synth-pop sound the Magnetic Fields renounced in recent years in favor of fuzzed-out guitar rock and strummy chamber folk.
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Q MagazineMar 14, 2012It's lacking some of his scabrous wit, but this is Merritt's most enjoyable album for years. [April 2012, p.101]
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Mar 5, 2012There's still a feeling of something missing here, and while the material is much stronger than on the band's most recent releases, there's also a sense that these are the first 15 songs Merritt wrote for the project and not the best of a larger selection.
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Mar 15, 2012I hate to say it, but Love at the Bottom of the Sea is such a drag: a damp and dreary album, drowning in bad faith and bad jokes.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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