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	Music \| Future Bible Heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Future Bible Heroes are yet another project powered by the indefatigably prolific songwriter Stephin Merritt.
		It did, however, send him back to the relative comfort of Future Bible Heroes, the most collaborative and genre-specific of all the recording projects he has active.
		The equally wry "I’m a Vampire" is another standout, though Merritt might have thought to save that one for one of his other projects — the Gothic Archies.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/02401756.htm (207 words)

	The House of Tomorrow \| Future Bible Heroes
		Future Bible Heroes are a songwriting collaboration between Stephin Merritt (words and melodies) and Chris Ewen (instruments).
		Future Bible Heroes is the fruitful product of Ewen's exotic electro-pop instrumentation, replete with samples ranging from Hawaiian birds to computer printers, overlaid with Merritt's exquisite pop songs and humorous lyrical style.
		For the second Future Bible Heroes album, "Eternal Youth," Gonson takes over as the lead vocalist on all songs.
	houseoftomorrow.com /fbh.php (214 words)

	Junkmedia: An interview Future Bible Heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		FBH record alone in different parts of the US -- Ewen is Boston-based, the others live in New York -- meeting only every so often to talk about the direction each record should take.
		So, although FBH sound as if their "soul" is in the process of being frozen and cut out, you can imagine that it's Oscar Wilde who's carrying ice from the freezer and Ambrose Bierce -- that famously acerbic American author -- who's hacking away at it with his pen.
		FBH are only concerned with following their own creative rules and are not looking to answer to anyone.
	www.junkmedia.org /?i=803 (1539 words)

	Rykodisc Catalog - Memories of Love - Future Bible Heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Future Bible Heroes began with the fortuitous meeting of Stephin Merritt and Chris Ewen on a miniature golf course in the late 80's.
		Future Bible Heroes is the fruitful product of Ewen's exotic electro-pop instrumentation, replete with samples ranging from Hawaiian birds to computer printers, overlaid with Merritt's exquisite pop songwriting and brilliant, often humorous, lyrical style.
		After completing her Ph.D. in a record one year from UC Berkeley, Gonson returned to her native New York to complete the Future Bible Heroes album and embark on the multifarious career path of pop singing.
	www.rykodisc.com /rykoindex/catalog/CatalogAlbum_01.asp?Action=GetOne&Album_ID=659 (316 words)

	Merge Records - Future Bible Heroes
		FUTURE BIBLE HEROES return with more of their delicious synth-pop confections, and we at Merge are honored to bring you this stellar 5 song EP, I'M LONELY (AND I LOVE IT).
		FUTURE BIBLE HEROES have previously released a critically and commercially acclaimed full length, MEMORIES OF LOVE, as well as an EP, LONELY DAYS on Rykodisc / Slow River.
		Future Bible Heroes is but one of many musical outlets for Merritt.
	www.mergerecords.com /band.php?band_id=34& (474 words)

	Future Bible Heroes: Eternal Youth
		You have to admire Future Bible Heroes' sheer unabashedness.
		Future Bible Heroes is one of those bands loved by many, but relatively unknown to most and it's a shame.
		Author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, American Gods) wrote an ode to this record on his site; the band thanks Daniel Handler (more widely known as Lemony Snicket) in the liner notes; Esquire quotes lyrics from the opening song in their October issue.
	www.plume-noire.com /music/releases/futurebibleheroes.html (406 words)

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		Satisfact and Future Bible Heroes, while vastly dissimilar to one another, both benefit from orderly collations of modern indie stylistics and old-art-school calibration.
		Future Bible Heroes, on the other hand, take their cues straight from the percolator-pop peccadilloes of the no-guitar crowd on Memories of Love.
		The (literally) unsung Hero of the band is multi-instrumentalist/ Boston club DJ Chris Ewen, formerly of Figures on a Beach, who renders songs like "Lonely Days" and "Hopeless" into pop-art art-pop objects that swoon and giggle like lost college radio hits from another realm.
	www.lollipop.com /archive_temp.php3?content=issue39/39-4b-06.html (403 words)

	ALBUM REVIEW: Future Bible Heroes: I’m Lonely (EP) -- A Good Thing
		The Future Bible Heroes is a group that provides glimpses at the creative possibilities of such blatantly counter-intuitive combinations.
		FBH is comprised of Chris Ewen, deejay at ManRay and founding member of the 80s band Figures on a Beach (their cover of “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” is still a staple at 80’s dance parties nationwide), who provides the music to the idiosyncratic lyrics of Stephin Merritt, of The Magnetic Fields fame.
		Future Bible Heroes is certainly music of the future.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V120/N50/future_bible_he.50a.html (811 words)

	Ink 19 :: Future Bible Heroes
		I think I could come to love the Future Bible Heroes' song "A Thousand Lovers in One Day." This detached, chilling and restrained track made me think wistfully of what collaboration between Kirsty MacColl (bless her) and Brian Eno might have sounded like (which is, in itself, a wonderful idea).
		They're "indie" and likely to remain "underground." I'm aware that Stephen Merritt (also of The Magnetic Fields and other bands) is a widely acclaimed songwriter, but I'm not familiar enough with his previous work to know whether this is a prime example.
		I'm sorry to have to say this, both because Future Bible Hero Chris Ewen is a former member of the underrated Figures On a Beach, and because this group is working in one of my favorite styles (synth-pop).
	www.ink19.com /issues/august2002/musicReviews/musicF/futureBibleHeroes.html (411 words)

	Oh, Christ (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Future Bible Heroes (from l): Claudia Gonson, Stephin Merritt, Chris Ewen.
		Future Bible Heroes features Magnetic Fields drummer Claudia Gonson and keyboardist Chris Ewen, formerly of Detroit’s Figures on a Beach.
		Future Bible Heroes will perform Thursday, Nov. 7 at the Magic Bag (22920 Woodward, Ferndale).
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=4233 (703 words)

	Future Bible Heroes: Eternal Youth - PopMatters Music Review
		Despite what you may think, Future Bible Heroes are not ultramodern evangelists sent to save us from the vileness of modern society.
		The Bible Heroes are Merritt's lo-fi synth outlet, with their 1997 debut Memories of Love ranking amongst his best works.
		At times the Future Bible Heroes sound like mid-'80s imitators Anything Box, the only thing missing is the bad Flock of Seagulls haircuts.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/f/futurebibleheroes-eternal.shtml (996 words)

	The House of Tomorrow \| The 6ths
		Electropoppers have been grooving off the latest release by Future Bible Heroes— the band in which Mr.
		Merritt asked me to play accordion behind Odetta on "Waltzing Me All The Way Home."i was nervous: an amateur musician, showing up at a real live recording studio to play behind a singer whose glorious voice has made her a folksuperheroine since the 1960s.
		Odetta's grand entrance didn't calm me down any—she recited a long, invented history about the hero of the song and made me promise to keep the tale in mind as we did the first take.
	www.houseoftomorrow.com /sixths.php (804 words)

	Pulsars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For starters, Pulsars (who come to the Paradise, in Boston, in support of their homonymous Almo/Geffen debut to open for Supergrass this Wednesday) and Future Bible Heroes (whose Memories of Love was just released by Slow River) aren't Duran Duran-style fashion plates.
		And though the two groups draw on different influences from the past to feed their futuristic muses, each is aided by time's tendency to transform yesterday's trash into today's golden kitsch.
		Future Bible Heroes comprise indie rock's maudlin poet laureate Stephin Merritt, his Magnetic Fields partner Claudia Gonson, and DJ Chris Ewen (he spins locally at Man Ray, in Cambridge).
	www.worcesterphoenix.com /archive/music/97/05/23/PULSARS.html (589 words)

	Future Bible Heroes - I'm Lonely (And I Love It) (Merge) - Drawer B Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		By: Eric G. If I had to pick the weakest Stephin Merritt side project I'd have to say it's Future Bible Heroes, hands down, and I firmly believe this is because Merritt doesn't write the music himself (as he does in all of his other musical incarnations).
		Future Bible Heroes is an indulgent throwback to fluffy eighties dance pop a la the Human League and the Pet Shop Boys, but behind all the sequencers is ex-Figures On A Beach member Christopher Ewen, who lacks Merritt's darker edge when he's constructing patronizing retro-pop.
		This is almost justifiable, considering his impressive career output, but even the most devout Merritt acolyte would have to admit that Future Bible Heroes isn't on par with either The 6ths or The Gothic Archies much less The Magnetic Fields.
	www.drawerb.com /features/966287400.htm (418 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Rhythm & Views (December 28 - January 3, 2001)
		Future Bible Heroes' shtick (for every Merritt project has a shtick) is to produce songs written by Merritt and orchestrated by Chris Ewen, formerly of '80s band Figures On A Beach.
		Ewen ensures that each song is more bouncy and thumpy with synthesizer goodness than Yazoo's "Situation." Merritt's melodies, as always, are simple and unashamed of their intense catchiness, while his lyrics continue to be some of the very few in pop music that would sound intelligent if you read them aloud.
		Merritt die-hards will snap up anything by him, but you'd be better advised to try the Future Bible Heroes' full-length from 1997 than this brief offering.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2000-12-28/qscans.html (360 words)

	Guardian \| Future Bible Heroes
		No bombastic introductory music, no grandiose light shows or films; the Future Bible Heroes simply wander on stage with the underwhelmed air of people who have taken a wrong turning backstage.
		The Future Bible Heroes are among his many side projects, and their songs bear his distinctive touch: radiant pop melodies married to lo-fi electronics and a mordant humour.
		While Claudia Gonson sings with schoolgirlish enthusiasm, Merritt is blessed with a voice that matches his stage demeanour - morose, deadpan and haughty - and a presumably unique ability to make a ukelele sound dolorous.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4512146-108884,00.html (249 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Stephin Merritt of Future Bible Heroes
		Christopher Ewen and Claudia Gonson, Merritt's Future Bible Heroes bandmates, both contributed to 69 Love Songs and other Magnetic Fields recordings, and yet the band has a distinct sound, with far more emphasis on dance beats and electronic orchestration than any of Merritt's other projects.
		The new EP is the third Future Bible Heroes release--to go with a 1997 album, Memories of Love, and an EP from the same year called Lonely Days.
		The final track is a remix of "Hopeless," a song that also appeared in separate versions on the other two Future Bible Heroes releases.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/07.27.00/merritt-0030.html (1181 words)

	Wizard Entertainment
		In Future Bible Heroes, Stephin does all the lyrics and the vocal melodies, and Chris does all the backing tracks and instrumental music.
		So, when it comes to themes and ideas for what the song should be about, it's either suggested through the musical arrangement that Chris does or just Stephin's own mind.
		In a way, this is a duet between me and him, which we've done several times in Future Bible Heroes.
	www.wizarduniverse.com /magazine/wizard/000843015.cfm (1497 words)

	TWAS 124: Papas Fritas, Future Bible Heroes
		Future Bible Heroes, once you get bored with the games in the booklet and decide to listen to the CD, is one of the several concurrent projects helmed by rococo Casio wizard Stephen Merritt.
		Merritt's primary outlet, at least numerically, is the band The Magnetic Fields, for whom he writes the songs and lyrics, usually plays most of the instruments (although some records feature an ensemble, as do live performances) and either also sings, or leaves this role to Susan Anway.
		Future Bible Heroes finds him collaborating, for songwriting, with Christopher Ewen, who then plays all the band's instruments, while Merritt and Claudia Gonson (the Magnetic Fields' manager, as well as sometime drummer and extra vocalist) trade off vocal chores.
	www.furia.com /twas/twas0124.html (2687 words)

	Future Bible Heroes - Memories Of Love - Review
		Before Stephen Merritt completed his epic 69 Love Songs, he had not only released several albums as Magnetic Fields, but also put together albums under the guise of The 6ths and Future Bible Heroes.
		As FBH, much of his same songwriting style is intact, but he gives up the singing duties much more often to Claudia Gonson.
		Not only that, but Memories Of Love has a bit more of a polished sound to it, feeling like a release somewhere between what you would expect from the Magnetic Fields, but also has a production quality and more rich sound that recalls and album like the High Llamas Cold And Bouncy.
	www.almostcool.org /mr/f/f8mu.html (477 words)

	village voice > music > The 6ths Hyacinths and Thistles ; Future Bible Heroes I'm Lonely (and I Love It) by Dennis Lim
		Confidently ridiculous and matter-of-factly wise, the 6ths record is a lovely collection of songs about pining, yearning, coveting, aching, "kissing the bottle wishing it was you." Needless to say, it's also quite funny.
		As the Future Bible Heroes, Merritt and coconspirator Christopher Ewen pay homage to the soothingly processed splutters and thumps and squelches of '80s electro-pop (no obvious Wedding Singer nostalgia—we're talking early OMD, late Sparks, Propaganda, a touch of Vince Clarke).
		With the fabulously synthetic surfaces forming a cozy cocoon around Merritt's reflexive cynicism, the new FBH EP is a shiny, acidic counterpoint to the twilit wallow of Hyacinths.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0043/mlim.shtml (666 words)

	Salon.com Audio \| Music preview: Future Bible Heroes
		Besides the Fields, best known for their 1999 masterpiece "69 Love Songs," Merritt has appeared as part of the mock-Goth ensemble the Gothic Archies, as one of the Three Terrors, and as a solo artist (with the soundtrack to last year's film "Eban and Charley").
		Merritt's most fully realized side project, though, is his collaboration with former Figures on a Beach keyboardist Christopher Ewen as the Future Bible Heroes.
		On the Future Bible heroes' second full-length album, "Eternal Youth," Merritt is as usual a one-man Tin Pan Alley, tossing off a dozen witty pop aperçus.
	archive.salon.com /audio/music/2002/10/07/future_bible_heroes (358 words)

	DAA CD Review: Future Bible Heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He is, in fact, the anti-Diane Warren, serving up catchy and lyrically varied love songs with his four bands (the Magnetic Fields, the 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, the Gothic Archies).
		So it's probably not going to shock anyone that the guy can pull off an EP of 5 love songs splendidly, which he does on this Future Bible Heroes disc.
		The only difference between the Fields and the Heroes is that here Merritt writes the tunes and lyrics and kindred spirit Chris Ewen provides the musical backdrop, which is always early 80's synth-pop cheese.
	www.dancingaboutarc.com /reviews/2000/bibleheroessrev.html (305 words)

	Future Bible Heroes: Eternal Youth: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		While the Magnetic Fields have been recently plucked out of the draft by superlabel-in-the-making Nonesuch, Merritt's yet to release a follow-up under his highest-profile name, choosing instead to focus on scoring films, farewell live performances of 69, and writing a musical with stock accordionist and children's author Daniel Handler.
		Oh yeah, and also releasing another collaboration with Christopher Ewan under the sacrilicious nom de plume of Future Bible Heroes.
		Like the Heroes' last full-length, 1997's Memories of Love, Eternal Youth has Ewan electronically arranging songs co-written with Merritt, with vocals added by Magnetic Fields drummer/occasional singer Claudia Gonson.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/f/future-bible-heroes/eternal-youth.shtml (591 words)

	Stephinsongs: News from 2002-2003
		February 5, 2003: The new EP from Future Bible Heroes, The Lonely Robot, was released on January 21 on
		August 9, 2002: There is a new Future Bible Heroes web site at www.futurebibleheroes.com, and their new album, Eternal Youth, will be released on August 20 on Circus Records in Europe and on Instinct Records for the rest of the world.
		According to this article from Billboard, Merritt is collaborating with theatre director Shi-Zhen Chen "...on a modern version of the ancient Chinese opera The Orphan of Zhao" and a new Future Bible Heroes album will be released on Instinct Records this year.
	stephinsongs.wiw.org /news02.html (583 words)

	Earshot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sooner or later, the world of indie rock was bound to spawn a perfectly antithetical character, someone who shares virtually no qualities - save an absolute conviction in his own iconoclastic musical tastes - with the crowd of people that he's both lumped in with and revered by.
		The simplest explanation of the underlying quality that Merritt brings to all of his projects (the Magnetic Fields, the Future Bible Heroes, the 6ths, and the Gothic Archies) is a certain level of impersonality: though Magnetic Fields and 6ths live shows have featured a full band, he uses machines extensively in the studio.
		Merritt's latest release, Memories of Love (Slow River) is with the Future Bible Heroes, a project that features music by Christopher Ewen and vocals by Merritt and his manager/drummer/keyboardist Claudia Gonson (though Merritt writes all of the lyrics himself).
	www.sfbg.com /Earshot/bible.html (1204 words)

	Future Bible Heroes: The Lonely Robot - PopMatters Music Review
		Last August, Future Bible Heroes released Eternal Youth, a collection of wittily-worded, '80s flashback synth-pop numbers.
		The Lonely Robot is a seven-song EP of remixes from Eternal Youth by an all-star cast of DJs, engineers, and producers, plus two new songs.
		Our world is much closer to the one "The Lonely Robot" both celebrates and warns against: seamlessly technological and organic, ironic and sincere, past and future.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/f/futurebibleheroes-lonely.shtml (1088 words)

	Armchair DJ: Music Review: Future Bible Heroes: I'm Lonely and I Love It (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		His lyrics are almost unfailingly witty, but his production style is often an acquired taste, so it's often up to the tunes themselves to tip the balance for undecided listeners.
		Unfortunately, the melodic acumen Merritt displayed on last year's Magnetic Fields opus, "69 Love Songs," is largely AWOL on "I'm Lonely and I Love It," the new EP from his side project the Future Bible Heroes.
		The title track is a tired, tuneless '80s pastiche more suited to Les Rhythms Digitales than the man who brought us "Come Back from San Francisco" and "I Have the Moon." The subject matter - the unexpected joy of breaking up - yields plenty of memorable lines.
	www.armchair-dj.com /reviews/i/im_lonely_and_i_love_it.asp (302 words)

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