The Magnetic Fields’ Stephen Merritt and Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold appeared on the East Village Radio present “Elia Vs.” immediately (April 30) to speak with host Elia Einhorn and play just a few songs. In addition they carried out The Magnetic Fields’ traditional “E-book Of Love” collectively stay. Test it out under, and take heed to the complete episode right here.
“E-book Of Love” initially appeared on Merritt’s 1999 album 69 Love Songs, which was reissued on vinyl in 2010 and 2015 and likewise impressed the 2024 Broadway musical All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Wealthy. Merritt celebrated the album’s twenty fifth anniversary in 2024 with a sequence of exhibits the place he performed the LP in full alongside its unique performers, Sam Davol, Claudia Gonson, Shirley Simms, and John Woo. The Magnetic Fields’ most up-to-date album, Quickies, got here out in 2020.
Fleet Foxes’ final album, Shore, additionally arrived in 2020. Since then, Pecknold has stored busy, releasing a number of singles, recording an NPR Tiny Desk live performance, and dropping a stay album. In February, he introduced a four-date solo tour with opener Allegra Krieger, which is able to see him traverse the East Coast earlier than closing issues out with a Judee Sill tribute present in New York.
Learn extra about 69 Love Songs at No. 78 in The 150 Finest Albums of the Nineteen Nineties.
