I (Magnetic Fields album)

i
Studio album by The Magnetic Fields
Released	May 4, 2004
Genre	Indie pop
Length	41:19
Label	Nonesuch Records 79683
Producer	Stephin Merritt
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Drowned in Sound (8/10) 5/27/2004 Robert Christgau (B+) link Rolling Stone 5/27/2004 Stylus (D+) 5/11/2004 Tiny Mix Tapes (4/5) link
The Magnetic Fields chronology
69 Love Songs (1999) i (2004) Distortion (2008)

i is the seventh studio album for the New York-based indie pop band, The Magnetic Fields. Several Magnetic Fields albums feature a strong cohesive theme; the songs of i are connected by their starting with the letter "i". (In addition, the songs on the album are arranged in alphabetical order, by title, heightening the sense of alphabetic arbitrarity.) As to be expected in a group of songs beginning with this letter, frontman Stephin Merritt's lyrics here contain more personal or first-person narratives than in past albums. This may be an ironic comment on Merritt's centrality within The Magnetic Fields and the larger constellation of his musical projects. Merritt here ditches many of his past synthpop and electropop influences for an album largely led by guitars and strings.

Track listing

1. "I Die" – 2:14
2. "I Don't Believe You" – 3:40
3. "I Don't Really Love You Anymore" – 2:33
4. "I Looked All Over Town" – 2:39
5. "I Thought You Were My Boyfriend" – 4:24
6. "I Was Born" – 2:01
7. "I Wish I Had an Evil Twin" – 3:16
8. "If There's Such a Thing as Love" – 2:57
9. "I'm Tongue-Tied" – 2:49
10. "In an Operetta" – 2:02
11. "Infinitely Late at Night" – 2:45
12. "Irma" – 2:23
13. "Is This What They Used to Call Love" – 3:04
14. "It's Only Time" – 4:25