It’s been 25 years since Boston’s The Magnetic Fields found a breathtaking career peak with 69 Love Songs, and the same ambition that drove the record’s conception in 1999 finds Stephin Merritt and co. playing the album in its entirety across two night sets around the UK and Europe.
Hamish Hawk - an utterly alluring cocktail mixing in the biting wit of a pre-dick Morrissey, a turn of phrase to make Neil Hannon swoon and a voice that sounds like Matt Munro making out with Scott Walker. Hawk is the real deal.
Natasha Kahn AKA Bat For Lashes casts her spell over us at The Barbican. Performing songs from her new album The Dream of Delphi, alongside familiar devotional songs of the past.
