Field Music
- Field Music
- Band Name: Field Music
- Record Label: Memphis Industries
- Release Date: Apr 11, 2006
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91Few bands this side of Wilco float along so easily on little more than diagonally rendered elegiac noises and severe anxiety disorder. [Mar 2006, p.95]
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Field Music is a joyful piece of pop art, and a case study in how fragments can make mosaics.
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It's an excellent nod to XTC's mod-pop, played with a frenetic edge for the ADD generation. [7 Apr 2006, p.63]
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The record is a gem. Twelve tracks with a sense of cohesiveness that side-steps homogeneity in favor of straight-up old-fashioned album workmanship.
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A debut offering of preposterously ace swoon-pop. [6 Aug 2005, p.56]
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80[An] intriguing debut. [Sep 2005, p.103]
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Smart, inventive, and exciting guitar pop.
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What is most interesting about this record, apart from it's self-assured collection of off-beat laments is the amount of exciting doorways it flings open for the future.
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Effortlessly blends candy-pop conventions with the concise edge of punk. [Jun/Jul 2006, p.128]
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80Instead of embracing the angularity of the self-conscious Britpop and New Wave scenes of yore, Field Music embrace the sugary pop-rock that defined the first British Invasion.
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76More ephemeral than Clor, more cerebral than the Rakes, Field Music has, like the Magic Numbers, fashioned a distinctive voice and near-perfect arrangements, but the songs hint at greatness nearly as often as they achieve it.
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These are songs that veer to and fro, frequently sounding as if they're nearly about to run off the rails.
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A top-to-bottom solid collection of art pop. [#13, p.85]
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70Even Paul McCartney himself hasn't made an album this McCartneyish for some twenty-odd years now.
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70Hard work but worth the effort. [Oct 2005, p.117]
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60Songs are succinct yet maintain an eye for layering oblique, eccentric detail of almost prog proportions. [Jun 2006, p.111]
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The band's shortcomings only become apparent when looking at the album as a whole; its repetition of the same sunshine formula loses it flare right around the third track, when the record's pace begins to slow.
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50Field Music is a classic case of an album that sounds so good that it takes a while before you realize that there really isn't much going on beneath the surface.
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LawrenceP8At first it seems kind of plain...but after half a dozen spins, it hits you in the most sublime way and I love every note of it!
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WomboA9Sounds like Elbow on candy and ecstasy. And XTC.