Future Bible Heroes is an American

indie pop Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and su ...

group led by

Stephin Merritt Stephin Raymond Merritt (born February 9, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the songwriter and principal singer of the bands the Magnetic Fields, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes. He is ...

, best known for his work with

The Magnetic Fields The Magnetic Fields (named after the André Breton/Philippe Soupault novel '' Les Champs Magnétiques'') are an American band founded and led by Stephin Merritt. Merritt is the group's primary songwriter, producer, and vocalist, as well as fr ...

. Merritt shares vocal duties with fellow Magnetic Fields member

Claudia Gonson Claudia Miriam Gonson (born April 5, 1968) is an American musician best known for her work with The Magnetic Fields. She often provides the band lead vocals as well as performing the piano or drums. She is also the band's manager. Gonson met S ...

, who sings on the entirety of 2002's ''

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''. In contrast to much of Merritt's work with other groups, the Future Bible Heroes work largely on electronica-based disco, with music provided by Chris Ewen, formerly of

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. In 1995, the group contributed the song "Hopeless" to the AIDS benefit album '' Red Hot + Bothered'', produced by the Red Hot Organization.

Discography

Albums

*''

Memories of Love ''Memories of Love'' is the debut studio album by American indie pop band Future Bible Heroes, released in 1997 in the U.S., the U.K., Europe and Korea. Its accompanying booklet features twelve word puzzles and games that, if solved correctly, ...

'' (1997) *''

'' (2002) *'' Partygoing'' (2013)

EPs

*''Lonely Days'' (1997) *''I'm Lonely (And I Love It)'' (2000) *''

The Lonely Robot ''The Lonely Robot'' is an EP by American synthpop group Future Bible Heroes, released on January 21, 2003 in the United States on Instinct Records. It consists of five remixes of songs that originally appeared on the Future Bible Heroes' 2002 albu ...

'' (2003)

External links

San Francisco Chronicle article

The Guardian gig review
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