The New Year- The New YearLabel: Touch & Go Released 2008 First new material in four years. Lyrically, these ten songs address the interlocked themes of lost time, frustrated desire, and the need for others. Although musically these may be the group's most varied songs for a band that made innovative use of three guitars, almost half the songs here are built around the piano it's the sequence of these tracks that brings together the story the lyrics tell. Track Listing: Folios

Originally transmitted as a special TV performance for the 'Old Grey Whistle Test' on BBC2 TV and for John Peel on BBC Radio 1

Judith Resnick also stars

and you have to make decisions that are extremely time sensitive and your body doesn't care

Counterpoint

ushered in a new era for The Magnetic Fields

Also present are strong tracks never officially recorded by the Heartbreakers -- "So Alone

We really went back to the essence of what defined us in the first place

Future Primitive

Three days before Buzzcocks were due to play on the Saturday we got a call to ask if Graham Parker and The Rumour could rehearse in the park on the stage on the Thursday night as he was supporting Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton at a festival at Blackbushe Aerodrome on the Saturday and Graham and the Rumour had never played outdoors before

Someday My Prince Will Come

Recorded across 2021 and 2023 at the Acid Mothers Temple

The resulting compositions are characters themselves - constant companions to the crew of the Bebop and brimming with just as much personality