The Magnetic Fields announce new album 'Love at the Bottom of the Sea'

The Magnetic Fields have announced the release of their tenth studio album Love at the Bottom of the Sea.

The Stephin Merritt collective revealed that their latest opus will be unveiled on March 5, 2012 - 21 years since their debut LP Distant Plastic Trees landed.

Its release will be marked with a six-date tour of the UK and Ireland starting at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead on March 11 and concluding April 29 at the Cork Opera House.

Love at the Bottom of the Sea is made up of 15 tracks, all of which clock in at under three minutes long and feature their signature mix of synth and acoustic sounds.

The Magnetic Fields' previous albums Realism (2010), Distortion (2008) and i (2004) were dubbed by Meritt as the band's "no-synth trilogy".

Addressing the return to their trademark style, Merritt commented: "Most of the synthesisers on the record didn't exist when we were last using synthesisers."

Love at the Bottom of the Sea is the first Magnetic Fields original album to be released through their independent record label Domino.

The full Love At The Bottom Of The Sea tracklist:

• 'Your Girlfriend's Face
  
• 'Andrew In Drag'
  
• 'God Wants Us to Wait'
  
• 'Born For Love'
  
• 'I'd Go Anywhere With Hugh'
  
• ' Infatuation (With Your Gyration)'
  
• 'The Only Boy in Town'
  
• 'The Machine in Your Hand'
  
• 'Goin' Back To The Country'
  
• 'I've Run Away To Join The Fairies'
  
• 'The Horrible Party'
  
• 'My Husband's Pied-a-Terre'
  
• 'I Don't Like Your Tone'
  
• 'Quick!'
  
• 'All She Cares About Is Mariachi'