{"product_id":"quickies","title":"Quickies","description":"\u003cp\u003eNonesuch Records release the Magnetic Fields’ \u003ci\u003eQuickies\u003c\/i\u003e, a set of five vinyl EPs that features twenty-eight new short songs by Stephin Merritt, ranging in length from thirteen seconds to two minutes and thirty-five seconds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMerritt explains his thinking behind the \u003ci\u003eQuickies \u003c\/i\u003econcept: “I’ve been reading a lot of very short fiction, and I enjoyed writing \u003ci\u003e101 Two-Letter Words\u003c\/i\u003e, the poetry book about the shortest words you can use in Scrabble. And I’ve been listening to a lot of French baroque harpsichord music. Harpsichord doesn’t lend itself to languor. So I’ve been thinking about one instrument at a time, playing for about a minute or so and then stopping, and I’ve been thinking of narratives that are only a few lines long. Also, I had been using a lot of small notebooks, so when I reach the bottom of the page, I’ve only gone a short way. Now that I’m working on a different album, I’m enforcing a large notebook rule so that I don’t do \u003ci\u003eQuickies \u003c\/i\u003etwice in a row.”\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuickies \u003c\/i\u003efeatures Merritt and other Magnetic Fields band members Sam Davol, Claudia Gonson, Shirley Simms, and John Woo. They are joined by longtime friends and collaborators Chris Ewen, Daniel Handler, and Pinky Weitzman.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Black | 7\" | x5","offer_id":50522499809611,"sku":"1088937","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50522499973451,"sku":"1088936","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/240cfc4a-404a-4836-85b7-f6be20f6fd85_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728009390","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/quickies","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}