Pitchfork and American Songwriter Interview The Magnetic Fields

When Stephin Merritt was in Chicago last month during The Magnetic Fields‘ 50 Song Memoir tour stops at Thalia Hall, he visited the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for a public conversation with Pitchfork’s Marc Hogan as part of Pitchfork and the museum’s In Sight Out arts and culture series. They discussed 50 Song Memoir, The Magnetic Fields’ new five-disc album that chronicles the 50 years of Merritt’s life with one song per year, which was released earlier this year on Nonesuch. Upon the album’s release, Pitchfork’s Sam Sodomsky wrote that “the story of his life sounds a lot like a Magnetic Fields album, and a very good one at that,” concluding that this new collection has made “his catalog 50 songs richer.” You can hear the In Sight Out interview here.

Merritt also recently spoke to American Songwriter magazine for a feature, although you have to be a member of the site to read it in full. If you are, click here to check it out!