The Field, "From Here We Go To Sublime"

Still #1 on Metacritic - huh? (ok it's great and stuff, but aren't we supposed to have Dylan or some unknown Brazilian at #1 usually?)

Aye, the Metacritic score is completely banjaxed; it's cos there are only about seven reviews written about it.

I like it; it's a decent record, perhaps even a really good record, but it's, to me and my girlfriend anyway, essentially just some nice ambient. It's certainly not the perfect artistic behemoth a lot of people are talking it up as.

It's very Orbital/Spooky, isn't it? If it didn't remind me of them as much as it does now I think I might enjoy it even more.

It's not (Geirism alert) melodic enough or varied enough in the beat to be too Orbital, but I know what you mean.

ok, not everything by Orbital or Spooky, just the general feel of things, I guess.

The #1 spot has been hijacked, and rightly so:
http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2007.shtml

Isn't Robert Plant & Alison Kraus #4 on Metacritic this year?
AKA, who cares about Metacritic?

xpost, SCREENSHOT OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN

not saying i care much about this, or any, hierarchy of "best" albums. just pointing out that it's no longer #1 now.

Comments section of the Field review is interesting. It kind of lays out the challenge for writers, in trying to describe why this album is good. Convince the people with the red numbers next to their comments, tell them what is special about this album and why they should care. It ain't easy!

Maybe I just don't understand it but in my opinion it should defiantly not be #1 let alone the top 10

i feel like this is probably the general feeling of 95% of metacritic's general readership.

iTunes (UK) has the "sound of light" EP for 79p a track right now (they've got it as a "partial album" -- don't think they realise what it is). that's an hour of music for £3.16, which strikes me as the kind of thing they'll bump upwards as soon as they realise.

just saying, like. just saying.

one of those albums i bought, liked the first track a hell of a lot, couldn't get into the rest. have just put it on again, skipping first track and am enjoying a paw in my face a hell of a lot. think this dude should make an album without beats.

i bought "sound of light" on itunes(us) for $3.95 yesterday. "morning" and "night" are super super nice.

"morning" is awesome; wasn't so sure about "night", actually. like "day" a lot, too.

iTunes just freaked out playing Chris Brown and it sounded exactly like this album!

haha that sounds incredible

this album is like the end of a.i., but more fun

So upon hearing some of his remix work done after 'from here we go sublime' I couldnt help but notice how homogenic and limited his sound palette is. Rumours has it that he'll be making a comeback this year. Is The Field a one-trick pony about to encounter the inevitable backlash? Or will he be able to hold up to the amount of sheer excitement provoked by this album?

I still rock this occasionally (good record to fall asleep to, oddly enough, and I mean that in a positive way), but I don't think I'd have much tolerance for more of the same.

do people still listen to this album? because in my ears this is the type of album that wow-ed you at first listen only to get tiring quickly.