Originally written by Luke Slater · 23 January 2010
If there's anything I love more than a free album stream on a Saturday afternoon/slash evening, then I can't think what it is. Probably cheese. But only that.
Anyway, we've got one for you now, which comes in the rather delightful form of The Magnetic Fields' new record, Realism, which is out on Monday. That gives you a whole weekend of guilt-free listening, before you decided to go out and buy it in a couple of days.
We reviewed it here, with Hannah Gregory writing:
“"Realism does away with this temporary rock aspiration, returns to non-amplified orchestration, and stops flirting with feedback, as Merritt again says, ‘I Love You’ through his characters’ songs."”
Don't take her word for it, listen for yourself:
Tracklist:
• You Must Be Out of Your Mind
• Interlude
• We Are Having a Hootenanny
• I Don't Know What to Say
• The Dolls' Tea Party
• Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree
• Walk a Lonely Road
• Always Already Gone
• Seduced and Abandoned
• Better Things
• Painted Flower
• The Dada Polka
• From A Sinking Boat