The Magnetic Fields set to release lengthy new record 50 Song Memoir
The Magnetic Fields have announced the spiritual follow up to triple record 69 Love Songs - and it's got almost as many tracks.
50 Song Memoir is a concept record, with each of the 50 tracks based on one year of frontman Stephin Merritt's life. A press release states that topics covered inclde “bedbugs and Buddhism [and] his conception by hippies on a houseboat in St. Thomas.”
In December this year, a seven-piece ensemble, performing on 50 instruments, will premiere the whole album during two nights at Brooklyn Academy Of Music's Next Wave Festival. Preview shows in Los Angeles and Seattle are also scheduled for early next year.
The new LP is due "early 2017" via Nonesuch.
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