The House of Tomorrow (album)

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1992 EP by The Magnetic Fields

The House of Tomorrow

EP by The Magnetic Fields

Released

1992 (7" vinyl)
April 23, 1996 (CD reissue)

Length

12:21

Label

Harriet Records
Feel Good All Over
Merge Records (reissue)
MRG152

Producer

Stephin Merritt

The Magnetic Fields chronology

The Wayward Bus
(1992)

The House of Tomorrow
(1992)

The Charm of the Highway Strip
(1994)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Pitchfork Media	(7.4/10)

The House of Tomorrow EP is the third major release by The Magnetic Fields, and the first with Stephin Merritt as the main vocalist. Merge Records reissued it in 1996. The EP's five songs are built on both musical and vocal repetition, so much so that the sleeve reads "five loop songs" as a pun on "five love songs". The cover depicts the St. Louis World's Fair (1904)

Track listing

All tracks are written by Stephen Merritt

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Young and Insane"	2:30
2.	"Technical (You're So)"	2:34
3.	"Alien Being" (Excluded in the original 1992 7" vinyl release)	2:32
4.	"Love Goes Home to Paris in the Spring"	2:25
5.	"Either You Don't Love Me or I Don't Love You"	2:20
Total length:		12:21

Personnel

Stephin Merritt - guitar and vocals
Claudia Gonson - drums and vocals
Sam Davol - cello

Additional personnel

Phylene Amuso – bass guitar
Nell Beram - guitar

References

Allmusic review
Pitchfork Media review
Tim DiGravina (23 April 1996). "The House of Tomorrow - Magnetic Fields". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 October 2010.

v t e The Magnetic Fields
Stephin Merritt Claudia Gonson Sam Davol John Woo Shirley Simms
Studio albums	Distant Plastic Trees (1991) The Wayward Bus (1992) The Charm of the Highway Strip (1994) Holiday (1994) Get Lost (1995) 69 Love Songs (1999) i (2004) Distortion (2008) Realism (2010) Love at the Bottom of the Sea (2012) 50 Song Memoir (2017) Quickies (2020)
EPs	The House of Tomorrow (1992)
Songs	"100,000 Fireflies" "The Book of Love" "Andrew in Drag"
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