„No drumsticks were used in the creation of the album“
http://www.nonesuch.com/media/videos/the-magnetic-fields-realism-introductions
Aus der Kritik der BBC:
The rule governing Realism’s sessions was that no instrument that required plugging in would be admitted to the studio. The sound throughout is nevertheless trademark Magnetic Fields – that strange gothic folk composed of whimsical flights of toytown piano, knelling banjo and mandolin, pretty strings, grumbling tubas, consistently confirming what unusually inventive arrangers Merritt and his cohorts are (not for the first time, the only real peers called to mind are Neil Hannon’s Divine Comedy). It may all amount to a band doing what they’ve done before, but given nobody else does anything like this, that’s entirely welcome.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/fjwx
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C'mon Granddad!