Stephin Merritt releases albums under the band names the Magnetic
Fields, the 6ths, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes. With
his band The Magnetic Fields, Merritt wrote, produced and recorded
eight albums, including 69 Love Songs (Merge records), a 3-disc
masterwork which garnered him widespread acclaim, including "best of"
year-end lists in Spin, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, LA Times,
Washington Post and most other major national publications. In 2002,
Merritt signed to Nonesuch Records. He and the Magnetic Fields
performed as part of Lincoln Center's 'American Songwriters' series
and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's 'Next Wave of Song'. Merritt
composed original music and lyrics for three music theater pieces
directed by Chen Shi-Zheng; The Orphan of Zhao in 2003 for the Lincoln
Center Festival; Peach Blossom Fan, produced at Cal Arts in 2004; and
My Life As a Fairy Tale, at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2005.
Merritt composed the score for the academy award nominated film Pieces
of April (dir. Peter Hedges) and for the independent film Eban and
Charley, and released soundtrack albums for each. His song, "The Book
of Love," was recently covered by Peter Gabriel and appears in the
film "Shall We Dance." He has composed incidental music for the
HarperCollins' audio books of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony
Snicket, and for Neil Gaiman's Coraline, and subsequently released an
album from The Gothic Archies, called Songs from A Series of
Unfortunate Events (Nonesuch). He is working on a stage musical of
Gaiman's Coraline. In January 2008, his band The Magnetic Fields
released their new album, Distortion, on Nonesuch records.
NPR's Project Song, the result being Man of A Million Faces
Many thanks for adding us...you're a lovely inspiration. Hope that you will continue to bring us those gogeous records for years to come. Take care! xx
Hello! We love your music. We did a song thinking of you. The song is called "Surgery of a dream" and it's in our space. Listen it if you want. Love. L.
It's been such a long time, - an endless time! - since I waited for your approval. I am really grateful. And so happy about your latest Distortion with the Magnetic Fields you embody alone in their eternal wavelength.
Should I repeat myself, I particularly love Courtesans. But your "Merritt albums" are just as good: essentials.
