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A wonderful example of a record becoming a sensation that also holds up as a wonderful artistic statement. Bridgers just impresses more and more. Bryce Cannatelli. Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp. No matching results.

Explore music. Get fresh music recommendations delivered to your inbox every Friday. Laura Willis. Trauma Slippers. Pete Brown. Matthew Quillinan. Martin Green. Joe Yan. Paul Greenwell. Timothy Letso. Miriam Hitchcock. Purchasable with gift card. God Wants Us to Wait Andrew in Drag Your Girlfriend's Face Born for Love I'd Go Anywhere with Hugh Infatuation With Your Gyration The Only Boy in Town The Machine in Your Hand Goin' Back to the Country That seems possible on paper, since Love at the Bottom of the Sea is also the first Magnetic Fields album in a decade and a half that isn't organized around some kind of formal limitation.

So is this record an exercise in liberation, an opportunity to explore bigger ideas, take risks, and reinvent the project as Merritt has so many times before?

Well-- and isn't this becoming the damnedest phrase when it comes to this band-- in theory. From the start, Love at the Bottom of the Sea seems to be a more welcoming listen than Realism. Two minutes in, we're greeted with an instant classic "Andrew in Drag" , easily one of the band's best tracks since 69 Love Songs. That's the frustrating paradox of Love at the Bottom of the Sea : Though it finds the band shaking off the limitations of their formal exercises, it's actually the safest and most predictable thing they've put out in years.

Of course, that Love at the Bottom of the Sea is ornate, pun-crazed, and flagrantly synthetic is not necessarily a strike against it: Merritt's spun these qualities into gold before. Marking the return to longtime home Merge Records and their long-shunned electronic sound, Love has the feel of a band getting resettled and plotting its next move, but it ultimately amounts to something less than the sum of its parts: It has the feel of a collection of B-sides rather than a proper statement.

There are enough good songs to put it a cut above Realism including, late in the game, the sweetly vitriolic "Quick! Skip to content Search query All Results. Pitchfork is the most trusted voice in music. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Open share drawer.