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Peter and David Brewis, from Sunderland, UK, formed Field Music in 2004.

DISCOGRAPHY

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

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SHE CAN DO WHAT SHE WANTS/SIT TIGHTER- 16 April 2007

01. She Can Do What She Wants
02. Sit Tighter

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A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME - 15 January 2007

01. A House is Not a Home
02. Logic

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IN CONTEXT - 9 October 2006

01. In Context
02. Off & On

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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

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YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO - 10 April 2006

7"
A. Etching
B. You're Not Supposed To

CD Single
01. You're Not Supposed To (Original Mix)
02. You're Not Supposed To (Matinee Orchestra Remix)
03. You're Not Supposed To (Video

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FIELD MUSIC - US VERSION OF DEBUT ALBUM, Out 4 April 2006

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
13. You're Not Suppposed To (Bonus)
14. Trying To Sit Out (Bonus)
15. I'm Tired (Bonus)
16. You're Not Supposed To (Video)

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IF ONLY THE MOON WERE UP - 21 November 2005

Check I'm Tired Here
Check the video here:
Low fat quicktime
low real player

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FIELD MUSIC - DEBUT ALBUM - 08 August 2005

You Can Decide - released 11 July 2005 on CD and digital single

01. You Can Decide
02. In the Kitchen
03. Feeding the Birds

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SHORTER SHORTER - released 11 April 2005 on 7"

A. Shorter Shorter
B1. Trying to Sit Out
B2. Breakfast Song

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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...."

TOURING

Old Touring

26 Jan 2007 - Tapestry Club at St Aloysius Church, Euston London
01 Feb 2007 - Garage, Oslo
02 Feb 2007 - Debaser, Medis Stockholm
03 Feb 2007 - Rust, Copenhagen
18 Feb 2007 - Paradiso, Amsterdam
19 Feb 2007 - Molotov, Hamburg
20 Feb 2007 - Mudd Club, Berlin
23 Feb 2007 - ICA, London
25 Feb 2007 - Whelan's, Dublin
26 Feb 2007 - Cockpit, Leeds
27 Feb 2007 - Glee Club, Birmingham
28 Feb 2007 - The Admiral Bar, Glasgow

LINKS

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BIOGRAPHY

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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