
Magnetic Fields, The "Quickies" RSD Magenta (2020)
"Details: Magnetic Fields, The "Quickies" RSD Magenta Transparent (2020, Nonesuch). Limited edition repress - Black Friday Edition. Includes an 8-page booklet and previously unreleased bonus track (A15). New stock, sealed. Description: "Merritt explains his thinking behind the Quickies concept: “I’ve been reading a lot of very short fiction, and I enjoyed writing 101 Two-Letter Words, the poetry book about the shortest words you can use in Scrabble. And I’ve been listening to a lot of French baroque harpsichord music. Harpsichord doesn’t lend itself to languor. So I’ve been thinking about one instrument at a time, playing for about a minute or so and then stopping, and I’ve been thinking of narratives that are only a few lines long. “Also, I had been using a lot of small notebooks, so when I reach the bottom of the page, I’ve only gone a short way. Now that I’m working on a different album, I’m enforcing a large notebook rule so that I don’t do Quickies twice in a row.” Quickies featu