Brothers Peter and David Brewis of Sunderland (who have been making music as Field Music since 2005) released their ambitious, sprawling and majestic double album Measure in 2010. For their fourth LP they've opted for brevity and a return to a more fragmented — yet curiously cohesive — aesthetic that dictated their earlier records. The result is a surefooted, fifteen song gallop of 35 minutes; a bustling, voluptuously cinematic ride that swoons, barks and soothes with strutting pop ('(I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing'), woozy asides ('How Many More Times?') and kaleidoscopic, snappish arguments ('Choosing [...]
David and Peter Brewis' last release as Field Music , 20102s majestic Field Music (Measure) , was the brothers' most accessible, most coherent, and best album so far. For all its sprawl and experimentation - spanning 70-odd minutes and two CDs, featuring ambient Eno-inspired soundscapes and what the band termed "'found sound' composition" - Measure showed Field Music, assuredly and confidently, as themselves. Having spent two albums as Field Music and a solo album each finding their feet, David Brewis commented after Measure 's release that they now [...]
Frank Yang It hasn't escaped my notice that my live show schedule so far in 2012 has been pretty lean, and what there has been has been more on the sedate side. Which is fine - I dig the low key stuff and getting home well before midnight - but sometimes you get a fever for something bigger, louder and more rawk... and on those occasions, such as Tuesday night, the perfect prescription is The Kills . The Amer-English duo were on the road for a second North American jaunt in support of last [...]
On Plumb , Field Music have returned to more fragmented compositions, re-shaping the prog-rock gene so it has intermittent fits within the impatient set-list. But there is more here, as well as less. So while we only get 35-minutes (iTunes tells me that among the fifteen listed tracks some are only 40-seconds or 59-seconds long) there are more grandiose ideas at play. Wading in with weighty pianos, luxurious string arrangements, drums that barge through the mix like never before and a host guitars and bass-lines, the Brewis brothers are constantly running on multiple ideas. So if you [...]
Facebook After writing up some bands lately whose names have either undersold or misrepresented the music they present, it's rather refreshing to have an artist whose public identity promises exactly what they have to offer. And that artist is Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny . A grandiose name, to be sure, and one that's matched by the title of their just-released debut album Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose . There's no way that labels like those could herald anything less than grandiose [...]
Hace unos meses estuvimos comentando que Field Music publicaría nuevo disco en 2012. En un principio estaba prevista su llegada en enero, pero tuvo que retrasarse varias semanas y finalmente verá la luz el próximo 14 de febrero. Se llamará Plumb y contendrá 15 nuevas canciones. Se trata de un trabajo esperado en la escena del pop independiente inglés, pues sus anteriores discos fueron muy bien recibidos por la crítica del país anglosajón. Su música tiene claras reminiscencias de Yes y oscila entre varios estilos en los [...]
A proposta da revista Mojo de lançar, com cada exemplar, um novo álbum, é o seu principal diferencial. Depois do lançamento recente de coletâneas de covers homenageando New Order e U2 , a publicação convidou um grupo, repleto de promessas musicais de 2012, para revisitar o trabalho do lendário Leonard Cohen , que recentemente voltou aos holofotes com um novo álbum, Old Ideas ( já leu a resenha do álbum? ). O álbum tributo The Songs of Leonard Cohen Covered reuniu artistas como The Low Anthem , Cass [...]
Plus Palace Songs, Cass McCombs, Father John Misty, and others.
So in addition to Vimeo's still ongoing "Old Ideas With New Friends" series , which has already seen Bradford Cox , Cold War Kids , Cults , and The Afghan Whig's Greg Dulli cover tracks from the great Leonard Cohen, there's also a covers album of Cohen's 1967 debut that comes included in the new issue of MOJO magazine. Contributing artists included Bill Callahan, Cass McCombs, The Low Anthem, Field Music, and ex-Fleet Fox'er Father John Misty , as well as Marc Ribot and My Brighest Diamond, who teamed up for a bonus track version of "Bird on [...]
UK duo Field Music are soon to release Plumb , their newest LP of jumbled, jagged indie-pop, and we've already posted the early tracks " (I Keep Thinking About A) New Thing " and " A New Town ." And right now, the whole 15-song, 36-minute album is streaming at NPR . Click here to hear it. Plumb is out 2/21 on Memphis Industries . Check out our Progress Report interview with the band.
Earlier this year Peter Brewis created an album of which there is only one version. He called it, unsurprisingly, One Copy . It's now sealed inside a record player in Sale's Lauriston Gallery. Intended as a comment on how people share and experience recorded music in the digital age, it was a way of making people think about how much they to value music. Now, exactly two years after Measure ' was released, he returns to his Field Music day job with Plumb , an album that deserves to be heard by [...]
Scan "Self-Portrait with Sheila " by me Howdy kiddos! How the fuck are ya? Me? Well just dandy dandy, thank you for asking... As many of you know, I've been a busy boy over at tsurufoto , takin' lots of pictures, starting a nudie blog , and, of course, running the #1 nudiezine in the world ! I've taken quite a hiatus from "new music" for a few months and I [...]
I don't know about where you are, but we are having a very mild winter. Not so mild that I should have been eating at outdoor burger joint Shake Shack last night, but I was and is where I snapped the picture that is now this week's cover art. There's lots of good new music on here, including the returns of a few favorite bands. Dig in: DOWNLOAD WINTRY MIX 2.03.2012 Tracklist: 1. Burning Hearts - Into the Wilderness [...]
This edition compiles January and the majority of December. Despite including material featured at the tail end of 2011, every track on here apart from "Stuck Together" and "(I'm In) A Chorus Line" is from a 2012 release. So here's our first peek at music in the new year, even if it's just the tip
Plumb, the fourth full-length from brotherly duo Field Music, sounds like one of their liveliest releases for two reasons. One is its clear and playful homage to traditional British rock greats like XTC, Pink Floyd, and even Queen. Tracks like "Sorry Again, Mate" and "Guillotine" reap benefits from the influence, which for the Sunderland-based group
It used to be a long-standing tradition for WWWTM to produce a quality end-of-month playlist of juicy mp3s that were gracing the iPod of our founding father, Lord Jal of the Shire. This short list of what's been doing the rounds on the Schönberg turntable over the last month is by no means a replacement for the classic WWWTM playlist, just wanted to log what I've been listening to. Enjoy (or otherwise)! Field Music - A New Town Friends - Friend Crush Allo Darlin' - Capricornia Standard Fare [...]
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Roughly 12 hours ago I was up in the River Gods DJ booth for the first New Music Night of twenty-twelve, once again splitting the 4-hour shift with fellow Boston-based music blogger extraordinaire Jay Clicky Clicky . While I've been doing the RGs DJ thing for something like 5 years now, this was just the 4th edition of the every-other-month NMN... and I've never had a more difficult time cutting my set down to a measly 2 hours. The whittling was made a bit easier once I discovered a whole lotta track overlap with Jay's [...]
We here at TGTF are just a wee bit excited about the new Field Music album 'Plumb', ready to drop the day before Valentine's Day (13 February) on Memphis Industries. (For myself, the excitement stems partially from seeing the Brewis brothers soundchecking last month for Marc Riley's 6music programme in Salford while I kept murmuring "oh my god, oh my god" under my breath in the next room...) The forthcoming single, 'A New Town' (out 26 February), is less manic and complicated than we're used to for FM (though contains some [...]
so ganz will sich mir "cast your stone", am 17. januar als selfrelease erschienen, nicht erschließen, aber die teilnahme von lucinda williams hat lichtpunkte gesetzt, ein glück für den songwriter und sein debut: walter rose : walter rose - driving south (feat. lucinda williams) by fanaticpro die single hat zug durch emotion, released von kicking ink recordings, hinter dem jules verne inspirierten moniker steckt phil barry aus reading, der sich bereits seit 2005 schafft und nach und nach einen namen [...]
Here's the playlist from today's My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU , Channel 35! You can still stay up late and catch the show again at midnight ET. Turn your dial to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM. Listen online with a free trial here . Check out this week's playlist below! First Aid Kit - Emmylou Malajube – Synesthesie The Big Pink – Hit the [...]
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