Love at the Bottom of the Sea is the tenth studio album by American indie pop band The Magnetic Fields.

The album was recorded by Stephin Merritt and Charles Newman at Bell Tree in Los Angeles; Mother West, Serious Business Records and Dubway Studios in New York; and Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco.

It is the band's first release with Merge since 1999's 69 Love Songs.

After releasing three albums relatively free of synthesizers as part of a "no-synth trilogy" (2004's i, 2008's Distortion, and 2010's Realism), Love at the Bottom of the Sea features the blend of acoustic and synthesized instruments that the band was known for in the 1990s.

[citation needed] The reception from critics has been generally favorable, with the average critical score being a 68 out of 100 according to review aggregator website Metacritic.