"I'm Claudia, the manager of The Magnetic Fields, and this is, um, my...client."

Check out Claudia and Stephin's introduction to The Magnetic Fields' upcoming album, Realism, over on their Nonesuch records page.

Stephin apparently took harp lessons to make the album. "I don't usually take lessons in anything before I play it, but it turns out the harp is kind of difficult, actually," he says. Claudia calls it "real, actual, played-with-ability harp" all over the album. Personally, I was excited about the bouzouki, but Stephin Merritt harps are good, too :)