Video: The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag (Best Fit Session)

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros have covered John Denver, in situations where you want to speak with confidence on covers it helps if you have knowledge of the artist covered, but alas mine is incredibly limited. I like this cut though, it has a sort of cinematic scope and is so willfully contra modern musical trends that you at the very least have to admire it. I also like the restlessness of it. This track sounds tireless and frenetic, especially towards the crescendo which grabs you by the neck as if you haven't [...]

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Stephin Merritt is arguably an international musical treasure. Across dozens of records - and one bona fide masterpiece in 69 Love Songs - the dulcet toned, sardonic visionary behind The Magnetic Fields (and a man once referenced by Bob Mould as the most depressed man in rock) has offered up a world view that is bitterly honest, hilariously fanciful and touched by farce. Merritt's tenth record under the TMF moniker, Love at the Bottom of the Sea , is released this week on Domino . [...]