"After putting out their 'synth-free trilogy,' The Magnetic Fields are returning to their signature mix of synth and acoustic sounds. Merritt notes about the new album that 'instead of using a synthesizer as a melodic instrument, much of the time I used it as a compositional destructive mechanism, something eating away at the apparent order of my perfectionist arrangements. I was very happy to be using synthesizers in ways that I had not done before. Most of the synthesizers on the record didn't exist when we were last using synthesizers.' The songs – none over three minutes long – were recorded with Merritt's usual cast of collaborators: Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol, John Woo, Shirley Simms, Johny Blood and Daniel Handler."
—Oh, man, now I've got to stay alive until March, when The Magnetic Fields release Love at the Bottom of the Sea, their new album.