What is the concept behind Realism, the new disc of Magnetic Fields? Beforehand, none, except this autoimposition of not using synthesizers for a group that during a time almost quite did it thanks to them. Also, Stephin Merrit has mentioned in some occasion that this one album is inspired partly by the discs of the folk singer Judy Collins.
Perhaps the concept also it might have been the Christmas, especially if we bear in mind that the first advance of the album is a song of praise. ‘Everything is One Big Christmas Tree‘, to which you can listen next, is the first song that we hear of the disc that it must happen Distortion and, how it is obvious, the whole electricity homage Jesus and Mary Chain has got lost for the way and Stephin Merrit has done the same again everlasting. It already warned that only ‘The Dada Polka‘ would take electrical guitar on the new disc.
That thing about the same everlasting is not necessary a villain. What it begins like a song of praise of good will finishes turned in almost a movie of terror, with the people who has to take gas bottles of the laugh to achieve that the people who is around him they have a smile identical with the face. Bad feeling for a few Christmases that still have not begun, although it seems that we take months living through them.
It is a good advance, better for the letter that for the music, but it leaves to me with desire of enough more. Until January 26 Magnetic Fields does not throw a disc of 13 songs and any other song of praise any more.
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