Holiday

Magnetic Fields

Magnetic Fields / Holiday
Genre: music4me > Rock > Rock
Format: CD Album
Released: Tue 12 Jan 1999
Catalogue Number: MRG29451.2
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Description:
The Magnetic Fields: Stephin Merritt.
Additional personnel includes: Sam Davol (cello); Johny Blood (tuba); Claudia Gonson.
Stephin Merritt has claimed that each of the first four Magnetic Fields albums has a specific and unique musical style. It is telling that HOLIDAY shares its name with Madonna's first major hit single, because the musical style on display here is early-'80s-style synth-dance-pop. Of course, in 1994, at the pinnacle of the post-grunge "alternative" era, few musics could have been more resolutely unfashionable. There's no doubt that the ever-contrary Merritt had this in mind all along.
In keeping with the escapist title and lighthearted music, Merritt's lyrics only occasionally-and then only lightly-touch upon his usual world-weary cynicism, as on the mournful "Deep Sea Diving Suit." Merritt pursues a more romantic path for most HOLIDAY, crooning the swooning "Take Ecstasy With Me" and "Strange Powers" with an uncharacteristic lightness of spirit. Chances are that it is all deeply ironic and bitter, but at least on the surface, HOLIDAY is sheer delight.

Details:

  • Distributors: PIAS UK, Sony DADC
  • Discs: 1
  • Release Year: 1999
  • Running Time: 36 minutes

Track Listing:

1.  BBC Radiophonic Workshop
2.  Desert Island
3.  Deep Sea Diving Suit
4.  Strange Powers
5.  Torn Green Velvet Eyes
6.  Flowers She Sent and the Flowers She Said She Sent, The
7.  Swinging London
8.  In My Secret Place
9.  Sad Little Moon
10.  Trouble Ive Been Looking for, The
11.  Sugar World
12.  All You Ever Do Is Walk Away
13.  In My Car
14.  Take Ecstasy with Me

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