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Lead by core members, brothers Peter and David Brewis, and aided and abetted by Kevin Dosdale and Ian Black, Sunderland's Field Music have released one of the albums of 2010 the double disc "Field Music (Measure").

NEWS

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.

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 01 August 2005

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

Upcoming Touring

13 November - 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
03 December - The Bell House, Brooklyn, New York
05 December - The Beat Kitchen, Chicago, Illinois
07 January - Hoxton Bar & Grill, London

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 Biography - 2010

Following a self-imposed three year hiatus Sunderland's Field Music are set to return with a new 20 track double album "Field Music (Measure)". Powered by brothers Pete and David Brewis Field Music have been responsible for some of the most sublime and artfully progressive pop over the last few years including 2007's Tones of Town and 2008's The Week That Was.

The new album is a sprawling 72 minute epic that picks up surprisingly eclectic musical threads and weaves them into something uniquely their own. If you listen closely, you might hear echoes of and allusions to the likes of Led Zeppelin, Bela Bartok, Prince, Fleetwood Mac, Miles Davis, The Beatles, Bowie, Richard Thompson, PJ Harvey, Crazy Horse, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, The Blue Nile, Pierre Schaeffer, Roxy Music, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Todd Rundgren and Discipline-era King Crimson.

Unlike previous Field Music albums, characterised by their precision and conceptual and sonic coherence, this new record makes no attempt to present itself as a unified whole. Themes disappear and reappear. Some songs flow together, others intrude on each other. There are contradictions and ripostes. There appears to be a great deal of defiance and a fair amount of resignation.

Can it make sense? Does it matter if there is no sense? What strands can possibly hold together the dissonant funk of 'Let's Write A Book' (a call to arms for the perpetually apologetic), the mutated blues of 'Each Time Is A New Time' (a riposte to misplaced faith in repetition), the chopping and splashing pop driven through 'Them That Do Nothing' (perhaps about a valiant willingness to make mistakes), the multilayered riffery of 'The Rest Is Noise' or the epic found-sound song cycle that starts with 'See You Later'?

Field Music produced two sublime albums of concise intricate beauty; 2005's self titled and 2007's Tones of Town. With a fiercely independent ethos which sees them run their own studio, produce, engineer and master their own albums, design their artwork and direct their own videos, the brothers, along with keyboard maestro (and now trainee chef) Andrew Moore, displayed a playful and refreshingly forward-thinking nature that won them many fans. However, having felt as though they'd worked themselves into a tight indie-band corner that would, in the long run, inhibit their creative output, they decided to call time on band activities shortly after the release of the critically garlanded Tones of Town album.

The brothers subsequently began writing and recording separately at their 8 Music studio in Sunderland. 2008 saw the release of David's School of Language album "Sea From Shore". Then came Peter's "The Week That Was" to widespread critical acclaim, even beating Tones of Town's healthy showing in previous end-of-year lists by being named in Mojo's top ten albums of 2008.

Having freed themselves from any outside or self imposed expectations, Peter and David decided to work together on a batch of songs with the intention of releasing them under the name Field Music. With the aim of making the recording process both pleasurable and productive, the brothers were less concerned about fitting their music into a traditional album format and more about recurring themes and motifs that might work and overlap across any number of tracks. The fact it ended up being a double album was if anything an incidental by-product of this mode of work.

And with the double album return of Field Music, we should rejoice that Britain can still very occasionally produce bands as joyously ambitious, as daringly dazzling, and as uncompromisingly talented as Field Music.

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