The House of Tomorrow (album)

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	[1]
Pitchfork Media	(7.4/10)[2]

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".[3] 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

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