- Description
The wry lyrics of Stephin Merritt, who trades off on lead vocals with Shirley Simms, combine with fuzzed-out guitar, cello, piano, and accordion on The Magnetic Fields' Distortion, an album inspired by the upfront metal-machine drone and submerged Ronettes romanticism of Jesus and Mary Chain’s 1985 post-punk landmark album, Psychocandy. Or, as Mojo called it, "bubblegum melodies in a bouquet of barbed wire."
The wry lyrics of Stephin Merritt, who trades off on lead vocals with Shirley Simms, combine with fuzzed-out guitar, cello, piano, and accordion on The Magnetic Fields' Distortion, an album inspired by the upfront metal-machine drone and submerged Ronettes romanticism of Jesus and Mary Chain’s 1985 post-punk landmark album, Psychocandy. Or, as Mojo called it, "bubblegum melodies in a bouquet of barbed wire."