The Magnetic Fields Get Lost (Ogv) (Rmst) (Reis)

7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - "...Magnetic Fields albums come off like bubblegum Joy Division, there are reasons for that. Ardor and distance are the pop song's main ingredients. Can you name a better tool for capturing the ambiguities of youthful lust in the age of AIDS?....GET LOST writhes with as many swoony tunes as ever....But it hurts more..."
"...has the starkness of earlier Ultravox or OMD with none of the pretensions. Merritt simply gushes sentimentality, without shame. And rarely does this kind of ludicrous vulnerability come from someone who can actually write a great song..."
"...Merritt's ranking strengths, though, are his unreserved certainty with melody and his surgically precise songwriting..."
"...The Magnetic Fields' appraoch to pop construction is so smart, so obsessive, yet so uninvolved...one of the most honest albums I've heard in months..."