Live
Leadmill, Sheffield, 15/3/2010
At the Leadmill in Sheffield Denzil Watson watches Bad Lieutenant, the post-New Order band of Bernard Sumner, play a distinctive set which unfolds to include his past exploits as well as his new group's first album
Barbican, London, 22/3/2010
Rachel Williams sees Magnetic Fields play both a surprising and an experimental set in a fantastic peromance at the Barbican in London
Stora Vega, Copenhagen, 2/10/2004
In the smokey atmosphere of the Stora Vega in Copenhagen, Tommy Gunnarsson watches the Magnetic Fields put on a "fascinating" and compelling performance
Features
Ten Songs That Made Me Love... (2017)
In '10 Songs That Made Me Love...', Tommy Gunnarsson boils down his love for New York based band The Magnetic Fields to just ten songs, which is easier said than done
Reviews
Love at the Bottom of the Sea (2012)
Stunning tenth album from Magnetic Fields, which finds Stephin Merritt returning to the synthesizer sounds of his earlier records
Related
Interviews
Russian Futurists
Interview with Matt Hart
Canadian indiepop act the Russian Futurists has drawn comparisions with the Magnetic Fields, Leonard Cohen, the Flaming Lips and the Human League. John Clarkson speaks to mainman Matt Hart about the band's acclaimed first two albums
Albums
Re : view-Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs
Running to three volumes, '69 Love Songs' is the Magnetic Fields masterwork. Emma Haigh says that "nowhere in the history of pop does an album come so close to capturing love’s jaundiced oversights, alienating highs and grateful awe"