Field Music's "A New Town"

"A New Town" off Field Music's fourth full-length album Plumb officially out tomorrow.

Order CD, LP or download HERE.

Field Music's NME Review & Full Album Stream.

Field Music's upcoming album, Plumb, received an 8 out of 10 album review in the February issue of NME (above). Also, NPR is hosting a full album stream for the next week. Stream HERE. Pre-order Plumb on CD, LP or MP3 download HERE.

Field Music Plumb Press Release.

Field Music (a.k.a. Sunderland, England, siblings Peter and David Brewis) release their fourth album, Plumb, through Memphis Industries in February 2012 (13 Feb UK/14 Feb US). The album, recorded over the course of 2011 at their new studio on the banks of the river Wear in Sunderland, comprises 15 songs in a succinct 35 minutes. It largely abandons the ‘classic’ songwriting conventions embraced on their 2010 double album Measure and instead remodels the modular, fragmented style of the first two Field Music albums; only now shot through with the surreal abstractions of 20th century film music from Bernstein to Willy Wonka and with the off-beam funk and pristine synth-rock developed on the brothers’ School of Language and The Week That Was albums.

A highlight of the album, “(I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing,” can now be streamed below on Soundcloud and downloaded from their website at
http://www.field-music.co.uk  

Field Music
Plumb    
(Memphis Industries)
Street Date: Feb. 14, 2012

Start The Day Right
It's Okay To Change
Sorry Again, Mate
A New Town
A Prelude To Pilgrim Street
Guillotine
Who'll Pay The Bills?
So Long Then
Is This The Picture?
From Hide And Seek To Heartache
How Many More Times?
Ce Soir
Just Like Everyone Else
(I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing

  Field Music - (I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing by memphisindustries

Field Music Are Working On A New Album.

Good news folks, Field Music are currently in the studio working on a new album.

Phoenix Foundation "Buffalo" Video.

Colourmusic Video "You For Leaving Me"

Go! Team "Rolling Blackouts" Video.

Spinal Tap Axe Man Twitters About Field Music.

" We say, "Love your brother." We don't say it really, but..."

A reliable source has relayed that David St Hubbins of Spinal Tap recently twettered the following about Field Music: "They're the berries". Now that's celeb cred.

The Week That Was On Uncut's Year End Best Of List.

TWTW #8 On Mojo's Top 50 Albums of 2008 List.

Mojo gives a top notch position to The Week That Was on their Top 50 albums of the year list.

Mojo Hearts Memphis.

The Week That Was: Learn To Learn Video On PitckforkTV.

Upcoming UK & European dates:
10/23 Carlise UK Brickyard
10/24 Glasgow UK Captains Rest
10/25 Edinburgh UK Henry’s Cellar Bar
10/26 Birmingham UK Academy Bar
10/27 Sheffield UK The Harley
10/28 Galway IRE Roisin Dubh
10/29 Dublin IRE Crawdaddy
10/30 Cardiff UK Clwb Ifor Bach
10/31 Oxford UK Zodiac
11/01 Sunderland UK
11/05 Manchester UK Academy 3
11/06 London UK ICA
11/19 Toulouse FR Le Ramier w/Stereolab
11/21 Galicia ESP Caixa Galicia w/Stereolab
11/22 Barcelona ESP Razzmatazz w/Stereolab
11/23 Madrid ESP La Riviera w/Stereolab
11/24 Málaga ESP Teatro Cervantes w/Stereolab
11/26 Paris FR La Cigale w/Stereolab
11/27 Nantes FR Olympic w/Stereolab
11/28 Schorndorf DEU Club Manafaktur w/Stereolab
12/18 Brighton UK Concorde 2 w/Stereolab

Absentee Album Review In NME.

Critics Pitck For TWTW On Salon.com.

The Week That Was' "The Week That Was"
If you're bored with the same old easy-listening alternative rock, most of which sounds like some gentle, inoffensive blend of Coldplay, Wilco and Earlimart, then The Week That Was, a solo effort by Field Music's Peter Brewis, offers a welcome change of pace from the likable but unimaginative, melodic norm. This is the sort of release that feels refreshingly uncategorizable yet hauntingly familiar, like the ambitious but slightly antisocial child of Kate Bush and Pink Floyd who refuses to play nicely. The 32-minute LP presents a deeply unpredictable, unfathomable progression of songs, from the relentless drums and early-Genesis sound of "Learn to Learn" to the Beatles-y ballad "Come Home." There's supposed to be some sort of unfolding crime mystery inspired by Paul Auster here, but good luck unraveling that one. Even after several listens, these songs will leave you scratching your head and wondering, "That was interesting but ... what was that?" -- Heather Havrilesky / Original post

Q Review of Absentee's Second Album & Video.

An early Q review of Absentee's second full length contribution on the Memphis Industries label. Victory Shorts streets September 30th in the US.

Video for 'Boy, Did She Teach You Nothing'.

The Week That Was Press Quotes.

Peter Brewis' (Field Music) high concept pop album The Week That Was has been receiving high marks from the UK press-types. Streetdate is next Tuesday August 26th, until then check out these raves and whistles!

"Brewis has built his thumpy, string'n'piano-laden compositions from the soil upwards, painting layers of 'Ashes To Ashes'-dusted synth creeps, Kate Bush ivory-punch dramatics and Sufjan Stevens-esque string-dives ......TWTW's beauty is obvious when it first hits your ear - one of the curveball LPs of the summer". 8/10 NME

"omniverous visionary pop" **** Mojo Album of the Month

"charaterstically intricate yet marvellously accessable" **** Observer
Music Monthly

"Songs with architectural scale and precission..dazzling" **** Uncut

"there are echoes of the early albums by that eighties egghead, Brian Eno. Brewis has synthesised a similarly brave music that is both progressive and humane, that takes melodic and sonic risks - those drums! - but still ends up as vibrant modern pop"
**** The Times Album of the Week

Nice NME TWTW Write Up.

Future Feature - TWTW Mojo's Album Of The Month

Time travel into the not-so-distant future..... The Rock 'n' Roll soothsayer predicts that The Week That Was will be Mojo's album of the month for Spetember.

Field Music Tones Of Town Makes It On Two Reputable UK Music Mags' Best Of 2007 Lists.