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NEW YORK — Indie pop icons Magnetic Fields are putting the finishing touches on their latest album and plan to write and record about 100 more songs before its release, a source close to the band has confirmed.
“As far as I know, we’ve only released two decent full-length albums and a bunch of 14-track EPs,” says band leader and principal songwriter Steven. Explained the benefits. “The only regret I have in making a 50-song memoir for each of the years in my last album is that I wasn’t at least 105 years old when I wrote it. So for this album I think we need about 100 more songs before we start the final mixdown, half of the new songs will be about my old cat and the rest will be about love. It’s going to be, because that subject, in my opinion, is rarely well covered in pop music.”
A studio musician, who requested anonymity, expressed dissatisfaction with Merritt’s writing style.
“I’m happy with the show, but I wish I was paid an hour. Stephen is very prolific. Sometimes I chat with him about what he did that weekend, but my heart Inside, he’s writing a song about deep-sea diving suits,” the anonymous source explained. “Today I spent seven hours in the elevator on my way to the studio learning to play the glockenspiel for a song he wrote. Can you stay?”
Similarly prolific indie rocker Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices also spoke of his often-fracturing relationship with Merritt.
“Yeah me and Steve used to be into it. It’s kind of an indie pop arms race,” Pollard explained before taking a temporary hiatus to record and release a new solo record. “They were due to release a new 74-track album, so we quickly released six LPs with increasingly loose song titles. It might not matter, but we did it often, and it got so bad that for most of 1997 I went everywhere with his guitar and recorded all his sounds with a hybrid sombrero/4-track device.”
As of this writing, Pitchfork has temporarily suspended its editorial team due to burnout from covering Merritt’s latest work.
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