The Magnetic Fields
Holiday LP vinyl

Reissue of the classic record that first came out on Feel Good All Over in '94. With Holiday, the Magnetic Fields dispensed of the Charm of the Highway Strip heavy conceptualization and country influences, instead pulling each song towards a different flavour of pop music. Stephen Merritt, whose singing was surprisingly sturdy and authoritative on Charm, was now suppressing his voice beneath the sugary layers of electronic sounds and instrumentations, rather than accentuating it. As for the lyrical content, the psychopathic vagrancy of Charm had disappeared, now replaced by childish nostalgia and a depraved and immature bit of lust.

NEW /  Released in 1994 / Reissued 

Tracklist:

A1 BBC Radiophonic Workshop

A2 Desert Island

A3 Deep Sea Diving Suit

A4 Strange Powers

A5 Torn Green Velvet Eyes

A6 The Flowers She Sent And The Flowers She Said She Sent

A7 Swinging London

B1 In My Secret Place

B2 Sad Little Moon

B3 The Trouble I've Been Looking For

B4 Sugar World

B5 All You Ever Do Is Walk Away

B6 In My Car