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Best Albums of 2008: #2: The Magnetic Fields: Distortion

Feb 15, 2009, 4:16pm

2. The Magnetic Fields: Distortion Truth be told, Distortion started off way lower on the list. For some reason, in memory it is never as great as in experience, a fault that I attribute to the very idea of the concept album. In memory, Distortion will always be that album in which Stephin Merritt tried his hand at Psychocandy, just as i will always be the album on which every song starts with the letter "I" (rather than the album that features career-defining songs like "I thought you were my boyfriend" and "I don't believe [...]

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