Field Music

Field Music – Making a New World (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 1, 2023 · Comments off

Field Music’s new release is “Making A New World”, a 19 track song cycle about the after-effects of the First World War. But this is not an album about war and it is not, in any traditional sense, an album about remembrance. There are songs here about air traffic control and gender reassignment surgery. There are songs about Tiananmen Square and about ultrasound. There are even songs about Becontree Housing Estate and about sanitary towels.

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Field Music – Flat White Moon (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 1, 2023 · Comments off

“We want to make people feel good about things that we feel terrible about.” says David Brewis, who has co-led the band Field Music with his brother Peter since 2004. It’s a statement which seems particularly fitting to their latest album, Flat White Moon released on 23 April via Memphis Industries.

Sporadic sessions for the album began in late 2019 at the pair’s studio in Sunderland, slotted between rehearsals and touring. The initial recordings pushed a looser performance aspect to the fore, inspired by some of their very first musical loves; Free, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles; old tapes and LPs pilfered from their parents’ shelves. But a balance between performance and construction has always been an essential part of Field Music.

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Field Music – Another Shot (EP) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 1, 2023 · Comments off

When we finish an album it’s fairly unusual for us to have a lot of extra tracks leftover but one of the very few positives of last year’s upheavals was that we had time to work on more songs that could fit on a single LP. Rather than release yet another double-album, we left these extra tracks on the shelf getting dusty… until now.

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