Name: The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (Reissue)
Brand: The Magnetic Fields

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MRG075CD

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-12-13

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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0036172937523

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Artist

The Magnetic Fields

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Merge Records

The Magnetic Fields’ first two albums, The Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees, packaged together as a two-LP set. Distant Plastic Trees, the Magnetic Fields’ first album, was originally released in England and Japan in 1991. Merritt’s accordion player, the novelist Daniel Handler, later noted that “this tinny and intimate recording, in quiet defiance of the reigning roar of pop music, recalls both the early, scratchy field recordings of folk music and the first experiments in electronic music - precisely the sort of stylistic balance the Magnetic Fields liked to achieve.” The album includes the early-’90s college radio single 100,000 Fireflies which had earlier appeared as a single on Harriet Records and was later covered by Superchunk. The album artwork on both Distant Plastic Trees and The Wayward Bus was created by watercolorist Wendy Smith.

The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (Reissue)

Music GB