Event

The Magnetic Fields

Spring 2012 Tour: Washington, DC.

The Magnetic Fields' "Love at the Bottom of the Sea" will be released via Merge Records on March 6. The band's tenth full-length album is their first release of new material with Merge since 1999's highly acclaimed "69 Love Songs". A North American tour that passes through the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, Texas will commence on release day.

After three synthesizer-free albums, "Love at the Bottom of the Sea" conjures the band's 90s Merge releases such as "Charm of the Highway Strip" and "Get Lost". Stephin Merritt has come back to synths with a fresh approach: "Most of the synthesizers on the record didn't exist when we were last using synthesizers," he notes. The songs none over three minutes long were recorded in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York with Merritt's usual cast of collaborators: Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol, John Woo, Shirley Simms, Johny Blood and Daniel Handler.