成军于八十年代末的美国殿堂级indie团The Magnetic Fields，1999年发行的《69 Love Songs》是传奇的三碟作品。2012年最新专辑《Love at the Bottom of the Sea》3月6日发行。The Magnetic Fields return to the signature mix of synth and acoustic sounds they established in the 90s with Merge releases such as The Charm of the Highway Strip and Get Lost. Stephin Merritt has come back to synths with a fresh approach:"Most of the synthesizers on the record didn't exist when we were last using synthesizers," he notes. The songs none over three minutes long were recorded in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York with Merritt's usual cast of collaborators: Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol, John Woo, Shirley Simms, Johny Blood and Daniel Handler.