Nonesuch, Warner Music's home for the most refined of niche music artistes such as Wilco and Brad Mehldau, seems like a good fit for The Magnetic Fields' songwriter Stephen Merritt. Since his landmark 69 Love Songs, his albums have steadily continued to compliment his witty, woeful love chronicles with a heady cocktail of showtunes, orchestral pop, and noir crooning. So consider us broadsided by his noisiest, least fussy album in years, the wickedly cool Distortion. Merritt embraces guitar fuzz with all the zeal of an adult finding old toys in his parent's closet on a holiday visit. Fun!