Four sold out shows at Town Hall?! The Magnetic Fields comes back home to promote their new album Distortion which sounds like one of their albums pumped through a broken amp. They played the 3 best (only good) songs off the album and I wished they were distorted. This show sucked on so many levels. There was no stage presence and Stephen was aloof and acted like a baby, but that’s no surprise. The sound was low, the band was dead and it translated into the music, focusing on the more depressing and slower songs off their vast catalogue. The scientific picture above was more interesting than the show.