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Jan 26, 2018The first thing that strikes you is an apposite openness of sound, achieved not just via thoughtful, spacious arrangements and due diligence at the mixing desk, but built into the compositions themselves, from the ground up. ... Is it too early to call 2018’s album of the year?
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Feb 2, 2018It stands with their best work--some songs would no doubt end up on a greatest-hits collection--and in that regard is some of the best pop music anyone could hope to hear in 2018 or any time after.
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Feb 1, 2018Their adventurous spirit is in such clear abundance on Open Here, that you could almost forget that this is a band with a stronger grasp of the basics than most.
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Feb 7, 2018It is characteristic of the Brewis’ distinct methods that Open Here can feel so cumulative yet still reinventive.
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Feb 14, 2018Some people will bemoan the lack of a real crossover hit (there’s certainly no The Noisy Days Are Over contained on Open Here) but it’s one of those rare albums that you just know you’ll keep coming back to, time and time again.
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Feb 5, 2018With Open Here, Field Music sound like they’re not only investing in their stability but in their future as well.
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Feb 2, 2018Everything comes bundled up in sumptuous production, with terrific tunes, and there’s never long to wait for a killer hook.
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Feb 1, 2018In the years to come we might turn to Plumb or Measure before Open Here to remind ourselves of the essential Field Music, yet this, their seventh record, is nevertheless a thing of immense songwriting charm and ideological strength, defined by its sardonic judgement of various seismic social shifts.
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Q MagazineJan 30, 2018Overall Open Here is joyful and reliably brilliant. [Mar 2018, p.108]
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Jan 30, 2018Open Here is a defiant and impassioned statement in which Field Music prove they have mastered the art of addressing the political and the personal simultaneously. It’s fun, it’s loud, it’s dense. It’s not content with wallowing in the state of things and wants to inspire positive change.
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Jan 29, 2018In lesser hands, it might come off as an overwrought and incongruous addendum, but the piccolo and flugelhorn, rolling funk and string quartet that have peppered the album demonstrate that the band aren't simply flirting with new directions, but wholeheartedly embracing them.
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MojoJan 26, 2018Field Music's most ambitious album yet. ... A consummate success. [Feb 2018, p.88]
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UncutJan 26, 2018Open Here is another prog-pop masterclass from a band reflecting our times while remaining stubbornly out of step with them. [Feb 2018, p.23]
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Jan 26, 2018Field Music have created a truly immersive record with Open Here, one that is welcoming, conversational and oh-so-necessary for a world experiencing daily fear and paranoia.
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Feb 2, 2018Straight into "Goodbye to the Country," and the Brewis brothers are dancing, as this record levels up and down from sweet ditty to funk-infused party number until the very end.
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Feb 2, 2018With Open Here, Field Music rises to the challenge with a set of newly crystallized talking points, offered up along with a glorious mess of noise.