Magnetic Flowers have earned a reputation as one of Columbia’s most artistically ambitious rock ‘n’ roll bands, so the awkward, overly wordy title of their newly released record, What We Talk About When We Talk About What We Talk About, is not so much ridiculous as it is just more proof that when it comes to making an artistic statement, the band is in a category of its own.“It started as a Raymond Carver reference [to the author’s short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love] and as a joke, just an absurd thing to call an album,” says singer and guitarist Patrick Funk. “It comes out of a line in the song ‘Talk Talk Talk Talk,’ this wordy way of saying something obvious to look smarter or cooler. That’s sort of what that whole song is about; it came from a conversation I overheard in the Art Bar.’”“I just feel bad that it has to be written down,” adds Jared Pyritz, also a singer and guitarist in the band. Four of the members sing a lead vocal at some point during any given show, and