Hey Joie!

Can you believe that it was already a week ago that we saw The Magnetic Fields at the Old Town School? Hot damn, that was a good show! We should have started writing that night, but the Hansa Clipper devilishly served us every time we called out for another round…

Some highlights: 1) a set list of which dreams are made, 2) in the only venue apropos to TMF in Chicago (they will only play the Old Town School for a reason), and 3) Claudia… lovely, witty and gregarious and foil to Merritt’s playful indifference.

… to hell with the pieces of the whole, it was all about Merritt’s wry songwriting (already well-documented) and the band’s ability to sensitively and hilariously breathe life into songs that make the broken-hearted laugh at themselves, and young lovers say, “If it has to go wrong, I hope it goes wrong like THIS…”.

[Forward pass to Joie]

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