Les Chants Magnétiques (English title: Magnetic Fields) is the fifth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus on 20 May 1981.
The literal English translation of the French title, "Les Chants Magnétiques", is "Magnetic Songs".
[8] Les Chants Magnétiques was recorded and mixed by Jean-Pierre Janiaud assisted by Patrick Foulon at Croissy studio, the cover was designed by Remy Magron.
Cashbox wrote that Magnetic Fields "is Jarre's most subtle work yet, being a bit busier than Oxygene and more textural than Equinoxe".
[13] In an AllMusic retrospective review, writer John Bush commented that: "It's often just as melodic and inventive as Oxygene, though not as consistently creative.