The Magnetic Fields are back to their old ironic tricks, or at least they will be come January 26 when their new album Realism is released on Nonesuch. Stephin Merritt has always found a key strength in representing the full roller-coaster of emotion love creates within us, and this album looks no different after a cursory glance over the tracklist. “We Are Having a Hootenanny” can quickly turn into “Seduced and Abandoned” while one is forced to “Walk a Lonely Road.”Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree.” The end. Full tracklist below.
Realism:
01. You Must Be Out of Your Mind
02. Interlude
03. We Are Having a Hootenanny
04. I Don’t Know What to Say
05. The Dolls’ Tea Party
06. Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree
07. Walk a Lonely Road
08. Always Already Gone
09. Seduced and Abandoned
10. Better Things
11. Painted Flower
12. The Dada Polka
13. From a Sinking Boat
(Via: P4K)
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