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Field Music
- Record Label: Memphis Industries/Revolver.
- Release Date: Feb 16, 2010
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Field Music can certainly use each song’s inherent tension to keep each song coherent, but over two album’s worth of music, that tension is diluted, and the songs tend to run into each other.
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It’s full of the proggy rhythmic U-turns, complex structures and virtuoso playing for which the band’s known.
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They have limited their ensemble to traditional rock strictures with the odd brass section and string quartet thrown in at opportune moments, and there’s very little else that you could do to describe it. As they say, it is what it is.
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Paul McCartney's influence looms large on the more melodic moments. Several tracks set up an unlikely meeting between angular Sunderland peers Futureheads and mid-70s Wings, and the beautifully orchestrated Measure could be a lost outtake from Abbey Road.
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For this record, the Brewises again borrow generously from late-60s and early-70s psychedelic rock (not to mention the first British Invasion), all pervasive vocal harmonies, whining guitar tones, bouncing bass, and crisp, dampened drumming.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 26
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Mixed: 1 out of 26
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Negative: 4 out of 26
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Aug 16, 2010
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MatthewDJun 18, 2010Creative, Varied, Authentic, Quirky, Simple, Complicated, Enjoyable!
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stevebMay 17, 2010