PO Now : The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees

[ChristopheLeFou]

 

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The Magnetic Fields’ first two albums, The Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees, will make their debut appearance on vinyl in December 2016, packaged together as a two-LP set.
 

Distant Plastic Trees, the Magnetic Fields’ first album, was originally released in England and Japan in 1991. Merritt’s accordion player, the novelist Daniel Handler, later noted that “this tinny and intimate recording, in quiet defiance of the reigning roar of pop music, recalls both the early, scratchy field recordings of folk music and the first experiments in electronic music—precisely the sort of stylistic balance the Magnetic Fields liked to achieve.” The album includes the early-’90s college radio single “100,000 Fireflies” which had earlier appeared as a single on Harriet Records and was later covered by Superchunk.
 

The album artwork on both Distant Plastic Trees and The Wayward Bus was created by watercolorist Wendy Smith. Her beautiful wrap-around paintings, now printed in a larger format, along with remastered audio make this two-LP set an exciting addition to the Magnetic Fields discography.
 

Preorders will ship to arrive on or around the release date of December 2.

 

As a huge fan of The Magnetic Fields and Stephin Merritt in general, I have to admit that I've never listened to either of these. Here's a song from the new remaster:

 

Preorder here:
http://www.mergerecords.com/the-magnetic-fields-the-wayward-bus-distant-pl

Edited September 28, 2016 by ChristopheLeFou

[Klera]

Saw this on Facebook--I'm SO excited they remastered these albums and even more excited to own them on vinyl. Waitin' on "When You Were My Baby" remaster to be posted, gosh