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

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