Watch: The Magnetic Fields – Andrew in Drag (Best Fit Session)

Stephin Merritt is arguably an international musical treasure. Across dozens of records – and one bona fide masterpiece in 69 Love Songs – the dulcet toned, sardonic visionary behind The Magnetic Fields (and a man once referenced by Bob Mould as the most depressed man in rock) has offered up a world view that is bitterly honest, hilariously fanciful and touched by farce.

Merritt’s tenth record under the TMF moniker, Love at the Bottom of the Sea, is released this week on Domino. We gatecrashed Stephin’s London hotel room a few weeks back and demanded he treat us to a song: the bon mot laden ‘Andrew in Drag’ was our response.