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Apr 28, 2014Old Fears is the sound of a quick, keen mind at work and play.
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Q MagazineApr 23, 2014Twisty and characterful, this is frequently dazzling stuff. [May 2014, p.118]
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Apr 8, 2014This time the emotional waters run just as deep as the musical ones, and it stands as some of the best brainy, heartfelt pop around.
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Apr 7, 2014Old Fears provides a fascinating insight into the mind of an increasingly-indispensable pop polymath.
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Apr 4, 2014Old Fears makes for a fascinating record, evolving gradually from start to finish and yet doing so in a way subtle enough so as to never jar nor stand out.
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Apr 3, 2014This is one person using only the bare minimum but still crafting something beautiful.
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Apr 1, 2014At times, it’s the lyrics in Old Fears that firmly stand out over the music itself.
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UncutApr 1, 2014Old Fears is entirely worth your concentration. [Apr 2014, p.81]
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Apr 1, 2014It’s a skew-wiff funk record you can’t dance to, something to get lost in while not immediate, stuffed with arrangements that have so much going on but you hardly notice once they’re set.
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Apr 11, 2014Part of Brewis’ duty in Field Music was to keep them from veering over the edge into too busy AOR prog, and he uses that same keen ear to keep Old Fears from becoming too cute or kitsch with the tweed-funk.
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Apr 10, 2014Old Fears is, then, a notably moodier, less accessible work than Field Music's last album Plumb.
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Under The RadarApr 1, 2014Old fears exhausts its good ideas about halfway through, but isn't a bad experience overall. [Feb-Mar 2014, p.76]
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MojoApr 23, 2014The bold Old Fears is more than a side project. [May 2014, p.89]
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Apr 7, 2014It works because of its twitchy pop sensibilities, which gaze longingly back at the '80s, and while that isn't a bad thing, it's still a hard record to get attached to.