![]() Merritt wrote the tunes and spun the arrangements, but allīut one of the 15 songs are performed by a 'stellar' cast of Merritt to the big time, The 6ths revives Tin Pan Alley's This is very much a gay aesthetic, and unlike Saint Etienne, (with its scruffy authenticity and earnest over-emoting). Tunesmiths and puppet girl-singers) as opposed to worthy rock Shiny pop (Tin Pan Alley's hit factory system of hack Like the Etienne boys, Merritt aligns himself with Piano, plus a host of self-invented weirdo guitar effects and Machines and cheapo Casio synths, cellos and tubas and toy Spector, he constructs pocket symphonies using outmoded drum Merritt aspires to their sad-but-īouncy air and sublime simplicity. Kraftwerk and Abba, whose work he described as "the pinnacle Like Wiggs & Stanley, he'sĬonstructed his own bubblegum pantheon out of artists like Merritt is something like US lo-fi's one-manĬounterpart to Saint Etienne. Magnetic Fields have won him a formidable cult rep inĪmerica. Hoboken based songwriter whose four LP's under the name The The 6ths is the brainchild of Stephin Merritt, the
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