Wasps' Nests

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Wasps' Nests
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Studio album by
The 6ths
ReleasedMarch 21, 1995
RecordedLet's Rain Studios
GenreIndie pop
Length45:17
LabelFactory Too
FACD-2.06
ProducerStephin Merritt
The 6ths chronology
Wasps' Nests
(1995) 		Hyacinths and Thistles
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4.5/5 stars[1]
Chicago Tribune3.5/4 stars[2]
Entertainment WeeklyA[3]
The Guardian3/5 stars[4]
NME6/10[5]
Pitchfork8.5/10[6]
Rolling Stone4/5 stars[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 stars[8]
Spin8/10[9]
Spin Alternative Record Guide8/10[10]

Wasps' Nests is the 1995 debut album by The 6ths, a side-project created by Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields. Merritt wrote and recorded the album, inviting different vocalists to sing lead.

Like the band's name, the album title is a tongue-twister.

"Yet Another Girl" originally only appeared on the vinyl release of the album, but was later included on Merritt's 2011 compilation Obscurities.

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Stephin Merritt[11].

No.TitleSingerLength
1."San Diego Zoo"Barbara Manning3:22
2."Aging Spinsters"Stephin Merritt2:20
3."All Dressed Up in Dreams"Mary Timony2:55
4."Falling Out of Love (With You)"Dean Wareham2:55
5."Winter in July"2:32
6."Pillow Fight"Mitch Easter2:34
7."Dream Hat"Mac McCaughan2:27
8."Movies in My Head"Georgia Hubley4:19
9."In the City in the Rain"Lou Barlow3:43
10."Looking for Love (In the Hall of Mirrors)"Amelia Fletcher2:43
11."Heaven in a Black Leather Jacket"Robert Scott2:46
12."Here in My Heart"Anna Domino3:30
13."Puerto Rico Way"Mark Robinson3:28
14."You Can't Break a Broken Heart"Jeffrey Underhill3:16
15."When I'm Out of Town"Chris Knox2:34
16."Yet Another Girl"Stuart Moxham3:30

Notes[]

  1. ^ Unterberger, Richie. "Wasps' Nests – The 6ths". AllMusic. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  2. ^ Kot, Greg (May 11, 1995). "Precious Pain". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  3. ^ Huston, Johnny (April 7, 1995). "Wasps' Nests". Entertainment Weekly. p. 92. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  4. ^ Sullivan, Caroline (July 14, 1995). "The 6ths: Wasps' Nests (Factory Too)". The Guardian.
  5. ^ "The 6ths: Wasps' Nests". NME. September 16, 1995. p. 50.
  6. ^ Ham, Robert (November 18, 2017). "The 6ths: Wasps' Nests". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  7. ^ Manning, Kara (June 15, 1995). "Wasps' Nests: The 6ths". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  8. ^ Randall, Mac (2004). "The Magnetic Fields". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 509–10. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  9. ^ Kreilkamp, Ivan (May 1995). "The 6ths: Wasps' Nests". Spin. Vol. 11 no. 2. p. 98. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  10. ^ Hunter, James (1995). "Magnetic Fields". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 237–38. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  11. ^ "Wasps' Nests". houseoftomorrow.com. The Magnetic Fields. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
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