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The Magnetic Fields: "Realism"—L.A.: A Folk Heaven

The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt and Claudia Gonson discuss why the "folk heaven" of Los Angeles proved to be the perfect setting to record the band's latest Nonesuch release, the folk-inspired Realism. Says Gonson: "Somehow the folk thing worked out really well in the bucolic, perpetual sun of L.A."

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