Holiday

by The Magnetic Fields

Holiday cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 September 1994
  • Label: Feel Good All Over
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:26
  • Community rating: 3.99/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Johny Blood, Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Holiday' is a brilliant display of Stephin Merritt's deadpan wit and incredibly melodic synthpop songwriting. The album utilizes lo-fi production and sarcastic, humorous lyrics to construct a series of bittersweet and romantic indie pop postcards that are both quirky and psychedelic.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, lo-fi, synth, twee, literate

Tracklist

  1. BBC Radiophonic Workshop (0:22)
  2. Desert Island (3:36)
  3. Deep Sea Diving Suit (2:05)
  4. Strange Powers (2:41)
  5. Torn Green Velvet Eyes (4:22)
  6. The Flowers She Sent and the Flowers She Said She Sent (2:26)
  7. Swinging London (2:35)
  8. In My Secret Place (1:41)
  9. Sad Little Moon (2:12)
  10. The Trouble I've Been Looking For (2:23)
  11. Sugar World (3:19)
  12. All You Ever Do Is Walk Away (2:05)
  13. In My Car (2:56)
  14. Take Ecstasy With Me (3:36)

Credits

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