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| Lovely quirky folk pop. |
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Field Music share close links with fellow Sunderland acts The Futureheads and Maximo Park, as is clear from the accents, the penchant for clipped ‘ba ba ba’ harmonies and the understanding that a good song will never outstay its welcome. But their pastures are calmer and brighter than either of those feisty two packs of post-punk-poppers. Instead, their taste for sun-kissed piano parts and sudden string flourishes more strongly recall the hazy days of evil-hippy heroes Love, wayward Scouse poets Shack and those barmy Welsh pop-trippers, Super Furry Animals.
An eccentric gem of jerky handclaps and lackadaisical vocals, ‘You Can Decide’ spins round in delighted circles until too dizzy to stand. The band’s core members Andrew Moore, Peter Brewis and David Brewis use guitars, pianos and percussion to stunning effect, creating a sparse and compelling arrangement that completely belies the conventional instrumentation used. There is enough loving invention invested in this simple two-minute gem to keep you going for hours.
B-Sides ‘In The Kitchen’ and ‘Feeding The Birds’ are equally charming: the former ambles in a dreamy melancholic manner, taking a brief detour into a garden full of little Brian Wilsons; the brief, absent-minded latter stop-starts with chugs of cello and gusts of distracted ‘aahs’.
On this evidence, Field Music are a band resolutely enchanted with all the beautiful possibilities offered by an open musical mind - and utterly enchanting for it. Their self-titled debut will hit the shelves of the less-stupid record stores on 8th August. I want it for when the sun shines. |
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| Tom Pegg - 10/10 |
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