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| Released | May 4, 2004 | |||
| Genre | Indie pop | |||
| Length | 41:19 | |||
| Label | Nonesuch | |||
| Producer | Stephin Merritt | |||
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i is the seventh studio album by American indie pop band The Magnetic Fields. It was released on May 4, 2004, by record label Nonesuch. The songs of the album all start with the letter "i" and are all sung by Stephin Merritt. The songs are also in alphabetical order.
The album ditches many of Stephin Merritt's past synthpop and electropop influences, largely being led by guitars and strings. It was followed in 2008, by Distortion , and in 2010, by Realism , which were both also free of synthesizer instrumentation, forming the so-called "no-synth trilogy".
The cover art, designed by Evan Gaffney, is based on Gravity in Four Directions by Fred Tomaselli.
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100 [1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Blender | [3] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B [4] |
| The Guardian | [5] |
| Mojo | [6] |
| Pitchfork | 7.7/10 [7] |
| Q | [8] |
| Rolling Stone | [9] |
| Spin | B+ [10] |
| The Village Voice | B+ [11] |
i has been well received by critics. It currently holds a score of 79/100 on review aggregator website Metacritic. [1] A track-by-track tribute to the album, entitled ¡AYE!, was released by Jackson & the Wargonauts in 2014. [12]
All tracks are written by Stephin Merritt
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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