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by Ellah A. Thaun

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1.
Take Ecstasy with Me 03:06
2.
Swinging London 02:17
3.
The Dreaming Moon 01:39
4.
Absolutely Cuckoo 01:12
5.
Love is Lighter than Air 02:14
6.
Strange Powers 02:30

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Ecstasy : this drug always felt to me as the beginning of a mushroom trip, but without the astral projection, rebirth and dying stuff. For some reason (the tremolo guitar I think) this original is linked in my mind with Etienne Daho's cover of Edith Piaf's "Mon Manège à Moi". But at the end of the song it's like there's a rave underneath and all I want is to be lost in that particular moment, possibly drunk, kissing the love of my life at a super-heroine themed costume party forever.

Swinging : strange religious tracts and libraries are a turn on for me, not manifestos. The lyrics might sound a bit dramatic (planets crashed, world goes nova, sun explodes, all goes black) but try to write a better chorus than that.

Moon : "...in a hundred years / I'll be right back here / with the Dreaming Moon." This song is the echo to what is commonly called a paranormal experience (this is what happens when listening to songs on repeat while spending too much time on your own, sleep deprived) and will stay as a vortex I may revisit when I'm dead to choose (or remember) other paths like in "Life is a circle, crossing a circle, in a circle, we just remember who we are and who we love along the way". Putting quotation marks not to alert anyone.

Cuckoo : i knew that dating in 2020, for a transwoman, would be difficult but I've never anticipated that being a Gemini sun and a Scorpio rising, apparently, was a fucking red flag.

Love : i've found a nice way to play it with my weird tuning since (and breathe correctly) but nobody is going to believe me.

Powers : Possibly the song I've listened to the most in my life with David Bowie's "Heroes" and I sure did way better versions of "Strange Powers" in the past, I swear, with my band and with my Roland CR-78. But that record was a one-time thing.

credits

released January 28, 2021

All songs written by Stephin Merritt for the Magnetic Fields.

Performed & recorded in one take on January, 7th, 2021
by Nathanaëlle-Eléonore Hauguel.

There's no effects involved except for editing a cough and two sneeze. Stereo mix, by Nathanaëlle-Eléonore Hauguel.

Mastering by Emmanuel Emo.

Artwork by Transmedia, Inc., EAT logo by Samuel Antonin.
The moon from the artwork comes from the "Moon Doom" cover painting of Wonder Stories (February, 1933) by Frank R. Paul.

Please visit www.houseoftomorrow.com if you don't know Stephin's work already. Songs are taken from "Holiday", "Get Lost" and "69 Love Songs".

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