Artist – Album: The Magnetic Fields - I
Released: 4th
May 2004
Sounds Like: I like
In ‘i’, influential indie icons The Magnetic Fields employ
the inherently implausible imperative of including only songs initiating with
I. If insanely intricate, it evidently isn’t impossible.
Impressively the idiosyncratic artists instil and imbue the
identical imagination, invention and irony here as on other, less impractical endeavours.
‘I Don’t Believe You’ is them at
their ingenious acme, infused as it is with their innate intelligence and
insight, and includes the initial idiom “so you quote love unquote me”; so
incisive, so amusing. ‘I Thought You Were
My Boyfriend’ is intellectual electro-indie. ‘If There’s Such a Thing as Love’ embodies the idealism and
innocence of infatuation, announcing “I’m in it!” ‘In an Operetta’ is orchestral and innovative and ‘Infinitely Late at Night’ is erudite and
infected with arid humour and intelligence.
Often incredible, always individual, ‘i’ is an important
addition to any aspiring intelligentsia (or plain indie aficionado) who wishes
to indulge in an improbably agile and entertaining hour.
Albumaday... rating:
7/10
1. I
Die – 2:14
2. I
Don’t Believe You – 3:40
3. I
Don’t Really Love You Anymore – 2:33
4. I
Looked All Over Town – 2:39
5. I
Thought You Were My Boyfriend – 4:24
6. I
Was Born – 2:01
7. I
Wish I Had an Evil Twin – 3:16
8. If
There’s Such a Thing as Love – 2:57
9. I’m
Tongue-Tied – 2:49
10. In
an Operetta – 2:02
11. Infinitely
Late at Night – 2:45
12. Irma
– 2:23
13. Is
This What They Used to Call Love – 3:04
14. It’s
Only Time – 4:25
Listen to ‘I Don’t
Believe You’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7yePNyz-nc
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