Distortion (studio album)
by The Magnetic Fields

Distortion by The Magnetic Fields
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-01-15
Overall rank: 8,318th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 51 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2008 (139th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (1,463rd)
Award Best albums of all time (8,318th)
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The Magnetic Fields bestography

Distortion is ranked 7th best out of 15 albums by The Magnetic Fields on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Magnetic Fields is 69 Love Songs which is ranked number 506 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,481.

The Magnetic Fields album bestography « Higher ranked (8,210th)
Distant Plastic Trees
This album (8,318th)
Distortion
Lower ranked (8,776th) »
The Wayward Bus

(N.B. Bestographies do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Distortion track list

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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 51 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.2/100, a mean average of 69.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.5.

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From 02/22/2018 20:30
L'ho trovato meglio di come lo ricordassi questo "Distortions", ma in ogni caso mi pare che queste "distorsioni" non si adattino granchè bene alle melodie dei Magnetic Fields.
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A disappointment as far as The Magnetic Fields are concerned, but still a halfway decent album.
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Perfect pop drenched in noise & feedback, even the cellos. Brilliant.
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