Wavelength

Rate and discover music with friends

Get

Love at the Bottom of the Sea by The Magnetic Fields reviewed by fantano — 5.0/10 | Wavelength | Wavelength

Wavelength

Rate and discover music with friends

Get

fantano

Love at the Bottom of the Sea

Item: Love at the Bottom of the Sea
Rating: 5
Author: fantano

The Magnetic Fields (2012)

5.0/ 10

“The latest Magnetic Fields album sees the band returning to form a bit with the incorporation of synthesizers, but it just doesn't feel like the old days, to me.”

Watch the review

[Watch the review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xc2uTO9v_Y)

Rate music on Wavelength

Download Wavelength to share your own reviews and see what your friends think.

Open in Wavelength Download Wavelength

Other reviews of Love at the Bottom of the Sea

pitchfork

The record that marks the end of Magnetic Fields' self-imposed "no synth trilogy" is also the first Magnetic Fields album in a more than a decade that isn't organized around a formal limitation.

6.1

rollingstone

Revisiting his favorite subject with his main band, Stephin Merritt delivers 15 synth-pop exercises, all 2:39 or under, savoring love in all its twisted flavors. A straight dude falls for another man in sugary harmony ("Andrew in Drag"), a religious babe cock-blocks her own boyfriend over electro-sputters ("God Wants Us to Wait"), and jealousy blooms […]

7.0