Stephin Merritt

Stephin Merritt releases albums under the band names the Magnetic

Fields, the 6ths, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes. With

his band The Magnetic Fields, Merritt wrote, produced and recorded

eight albums, including 69 Love Songs (Merge records), a 3-disc

masterwork which garnered him widespread acclaim, including "best of"

year-end lists in Spin, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, LA Times,

Washington Post and most other major national publications. In 2002,

Merritt signed to Nonesuch Records. He and the Magnetic Fields

performed as part of Lincoln Center's 'American Songwriters' series

and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's 'Next Wave of Song'. Merritt

composed original music and lyrics for three music theater pieces

directed by Chen Shi-Zheng; The Orphan of Zhao in 2003 for the Lincoln

Center Festival; Peach Blossom Fan, produced at Cal Arts in 2004; and

My Life As a Fairy Tale, at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2005.

Merritt composed the score for the academy award nominated film Pieces

of April (dir. Peter Hedges) and for the independent film Eban and

Charley, and released soundtrack albums for each. His song, "The Book

of Love," was recently covered by Peter Gabriel and appears in the

film "Shall We Dance." He has composed incidental music for the

HarperCollins' audio books of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony

Snicket, and for Neil Gaiman's Coraline, and subsequently released an

album from The Gothic Archies, called Songs from A Series of

Unfortunate Events (Nonesuch). He is working on a stage musical of

Gaiman's Coraline. In January 2008, his band The Magnetic Fields

released their new album, Distortion, on Nonesuch records.



NPR's Project Song, the result being Man of A Million Faces



"I'm In A Lonely Way" Volvo commercial



Visit the official MySpace for The Magnetic Fields and stream tracks from their new album, Distortion.

Listen to tracks from The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events

Be friends with The Gothic Archies

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