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| 23 October 2009 - Field Music return, part II | Field Music fourth album will be released in the UK/Europe on February 15th, 2010. Two tracks are already online: "Each Time Is A New Time" and "Measure". |
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| 17 July 2009 - Field Music return |
Best news we've heard all year is that the Brewis bros are realigning themselves as Field Music.
David tells Stereogum: "I've been rediscovering my teenage love of the Black Crowes' third album. There's going to be something to offend everything on this record. That's the plan." Read the full interview -here-. Sad to hear that Monroe wont be part of the plan. Best of luck chef. |
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| FIELD MUSIC (MEASURE) - 15 February 2010 in UK - 16 February in US | |||||||
 CD1 01. In The Mirror 02. Them That Do Nothing 03. Each Time Is A New Time 04. Measure 05. Effortlessly 06. Clear Water 07. Lights Up 08. All You'd Ever Need To Say 09. Let's Write A Book 10. You And I CD2 01. The Rest Is Noise 02. Curves Of The Needle 03. Choosing Numbers 04. The Wheels Are In Place 05. First Come The Wish 06. Precious Plans 07. See You Later 08. Share The Words 09. It's About Time Pre-order it now from our shop or Amazon UK. | |||||||
| TONES OF TOWN - 22 January 2007 in UK - 20 February in US | |||||||
 
01. Give It, Lose it, Take It 02. Sit Tight 03. Tones of Town 04. A House is Not a home 05. Kingston 06. Working To Work 07. In Context 08. A Gap Has Appeared 09. Closer at Hand 10. Place Yourself 11. She Can Do What She Wants Get from: Memphis Shop | |||||||
| SHE CAN DO WHAT SHE WANTS/SIT TIGHTER- 16 April 2007 | |||||||
01. She Can Do What She Wants 02. Sit Tighter Get from: Memphis Shop | |||||||
| A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME - 15 January 2007 | |||||||
01. A House is Not a Home 02. Logic Get from: Memphis Shop | |||||||
| IN CONTEXT - 9 October 2006 | |||||||
01. In Context 02. Off & On Get from: Memphis Shop | |||||||
| WRITE YOUR OWN HISTORY - 01 May 2006 | |||||||
01. You're Not Supposed To 02. In the Kitchen 03. Trying to Sit Out 04. Breakfast Song 05. Feeding the Birds 06. I'm tired 07. Test Your Reaction 08. Alernating Current 09. Can you See Anything Get from: Memphis Shop Check out I'm Tired and You're Not Supposed To here. | |||||||
| YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO - 10 April 2006 | |||||||
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| FIELD MUSIC - US VERSION OF DEBUT ALBUM, Out 01 August 2005 | |||||||
01. If only the moon were up | |||||||
| IF ONLY THE MOON WERE UP - 21 November 2005 | |||||||
Check I'm Tired Here | |||||||
| FIELD MUSIC - DEBUT ALBUM - 08 August 2005 | |||||||
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01. If only the moon were up 02. Tell Me Keep Me 03. Pieces 04. Luck is a Fine Thing 05. Shorter Shorter. 06. It's not the only way to feel happy 07. 17 08. Like When you Meet Someone Else 09. You Can Decide 10. Got to Get the Nerve 11. Got to Write a Letter 12. You're so Pretty Get from: Memphis Shop | |||||||
| You Can Decide - released 11 July 2005 on CD and digital single | |||||||
01. You Can Decide | |||||||
| SHORTER SHORTER - released 11 April 2005 on 7" | |||||||
A. Shorter Shorter | |||||||
| BUY - Go to the shop... Field Music | |||||||
| PRESS |
TONES OF TOWN "In a world moving too fast, Field Music have created music so lovely and layered it makes time stop" **** Q Magazine Recommends "A glorious band, supple as a jazz trio, punctual as a chamber troupe" **** Uncut "At the end of the album you're almost compelled to jump off the sofa and applaud" **** Mojo "Boogles the mind - a timeless masterpiece" 4.5 Playlouder FIELD MUSIC ALBUM "Perfect crystalline pop - this is a melodic gem" Time Out "Field Music's Debut is a genius, folk-psychedelic shangbang" 8/10 NME "Lustrous romance and loquacious imagination, an intriguing debut" **** Mojo "Like Wire arranged by the Beach Boys. Lovely" **** Uncut "They've perfected the pop gem" **** The Times "The most charming act to emerge this year" The Observer "Bite sized chucks of melodic perfection. Utterly brilliant" Music Week "It sounds like Brian Wilson has wipped out the factor 35 and slapped it on The Beatles back" **** The Fly "An excellent debut" The Telegraph "Steeped in lush melodies and harmony, their songs are full of rare twists and turns" **** DJ "An encylopedia of pop music" Album Of The Week Metro "Their debut brims with crystalline keyboard,heaven sent harmonies and beautiful tunes" **** Independent "One of 2005's unherelded classsics" 4/5 Uncut "The most artfully poised guitar pop of 2005" 4/5 The Times "Slippery lyrical ambivalence and knotty orchestral pop that's at once both damaged and gorgeous" 9/10 Spin "Excellent nod to XTC's mod-pop played with frenetic energy for the ADD generation" 8/10 Entertainment Weekly "Field Music is a joyful piece of pop art, and a case study in how fragments can make mosaics." 9/10 The Onion AV Club WRITE YOUR OWN HISTORY Uncut - "An almost baroque sense of minimalism and harmony as though the Neptunes had become indie pop producers" **** The Sun - "Divine Melodies, dreamy vocals and gentle sunshine pop treats that dig deep into your soul" **** The Times - "Field Music were responsible for some of the most artfully poised guitar pop of 2005....this is accomplished stuff" **** Independent on Sunday - "Field Music released one of the greatest albums of 2005" **** Guardian - "Dreamy vocals lush melodies and infinite possibilities" *** NME - "Immaculate pop" 7/10 Music Week - "The highlights of SXSW reveal their experimental side" Mojo - "The standard of the songs is consistant....there's a devotion to the plush lustrous tones of The Zombies and Holland-era Beach Boys" News of the World - "Maverick pop geniuses Field Music are set to start an indie dance craze...." 
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07 January - Hoxton Bar & Grill, London 24 February - Nice n Sleazy, Glasgow 25 February - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 26 February - Islington Mill, Manchester 28 February - Fusion Sheffield Union, Sheffield 01 March - O2 Academy 2, Birmingham 02 March - O2 Academy 2, Oxford 03 March - Scala, London 05 March - Crawdaddy, Dublin 06 March - The Pavilion, Belfast | |||||||
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26 January 2007 - Tapestry Club at St Aloysius Church, Euston London 01 February 2007 - Garage, Oslo 02 February 2007 - Debaser, Medis Stockholm 03 February 2007 - Rust, Copenhagen 18 February 2007 - Paradiso, Amsterdam 19 February 2007 - Molotov, Hamburg 20 February 2007 - Mudd Club, Berlin 23 February 2007 - ICA, London 25 February 2007 - Whelan's, Dublin 26 February 2007 - Cockpit, Leeds 27 February 2007 - Glee Club, Birmingham 28 February 2007 - The Admiral Bar, Glasgow 13 November 2009 - The Bumper, Liverpool, Northwest 18 November - BBC 6 Music Marc Riley Session, Manchester 19 November - BBC 6 Music Marc Riley Session, Manchester 19 November - Deaf Institute, Manchester 21 November - Captain's Rest, Glasgow 22 November - Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh 27 November - Cluny, Newcastle 28 November - Cluny, Newcastle | |||||||
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Field Music (songwriting brothers Peter and David Brewis plus keyboard manipulator Andrew Moore) covered a lot of ground in 2006. The trio from Sunderland, England, have performed in Berlin, in Milan with Belle and Sebastian and Barcelona, toured France with Architecture in Helsinki and the UK with their compadres Maximo Park and
The Futureheads, the UK twice on their lonesome, including Reading and Leeds Festival appearances, and the US where they were one of the surprise hits of SXSW. They also found time to invent a dance craze (according to English tabloid newspaper The News of the World), etch one side of a 7" with a list of things you really shouldn't do
but probably have, remix Maximo Park, release a cash-in-b-sides album which gave a brief and inaccurate history of a slew of pre-Field Music experiments.
In addition the band also found time to record their second album proper. As with their eponymous debut, Tones of Town was self-produced. Recording took place at their own Eight Music studio in Sunderland between 31st January and 16th May. Where 'Field Music' was the sound of a group making the record they knew they were capable of; dryly-produced, ambitiously skewed, multilayered pop which gradually revealed its intricacies over repeated listens; Tones of Town sees Field Music pushing and scratching at all of the boundaries implicit in their debut; the sound of a band moving in several directions at once, searching for ways to surprise themselves, taking risks and trying something new. That could be the cut-and-paste beatboxing which concludes 'Sit Tight', the stacked Day At The Races harmonies which lead into 'Closer At Hand', the tumble from dreaming overlapped marimba into an undiluted joyous rock guitar riff on the opener 'Give It Lose It Take It' or where the spiraling modular structures of the first record reach their logical extreme on the title track. On 'A House Is Not A Home' (Brewis, P) and first single 'In Context', Field Music could even be described as 'funky', albeit in a peculiarly singular avant-mackem way. The album does though have a (possibly unintentional) unifying theme. Something along the lines of "There's no place like home, but how come I don't always feel 'at home', and what does that mean anyway?" Lyrically, Tones of Town, presents itself as a collection of missives from a generation who don't want to complain because they're well aware that they've never had it so good, but who nonetheless feel somewhat dislocated; geographically, socially, personally, from each other, from their jobs, from supermarkets, from indie music and from television. | |||||||
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