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The genres are all over the place—from acoustic blues, folk and country to synth-powered pop to pure theater—but the 69 tracks on Stephin Merritt’s most ambitious recording project to date combine to make a wonderfully satisfying whole. Sweepingly romantic, bitterly cynical, playfully funny…these songs and productions look at love from every angle and delight all along the way: "Absolutely Cuckoo," "I Don’t Believe in the Sun," "All My Little Words," "A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off," "Reno Dakota," "I Don’t Want to Get over You," "The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side," "A Pretty Girl Is Like," "Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing," "(Crazy for You but) Not That Crazy," "Asleep and Dreaming," "Busby Berkeley Dreams" and more. Get all 69 songs on 3 CDs or 6 10" vinyl discs, which come in a sturdy 10" slipcase with a full-size 24-page booklet featuring a song-by-song study of the album! Merge.