Field Music

Agreed that people here in the US don't seem to be aware of them. They're playing what is pretty much my city's smallest proper venue in a couple weeks, and it probably won't even sell out. And tix are only 12 bucks!

But yeah, some hype from the likes of NPR would prob help these guys out. (As you said, in the best way possible!)

I don't remember how I found Tones of Town (I think it was a couple years after it came out), but I remember first thinking it was something from the mid to late 70s, and second thinking "Why has no one ever even mentioned this band's name to me before?"

Yeah, I def came upon them by accident, too. (Uh, to the extent that obsessive-compulsively looking up every band I hear about for the last 20 years is an accident.)

lol otm

I would guess they would (or do) play best to the aging-hipster-to-boomer set

Yeah, that more or less sums up the (small) crowd that showed up for them in DC last night. They were playing with a smaller band than usual; show had an appealing seat-of-the-pants quality. I dug it.

oh yeah they're playing NYC tomorrow, almost forgot, may try to get tix

playing tonight in philly. can't believe the show isn't sold out

Yeah, neither is NYC it seems. Small venue too. Guess whoever promotes them has not figured out how to do it properly. Want to go but I am old and a 9pm show with two openers definitely means a late start time.

there were maybe like 60 or 70 ppl at the show last night. they went on at 10:15.

anti-prog press has poisoned listeners to this type of stuff too

yeah sounding like genesis is not cool in 2016

or roxy music or XTC really, which is way too bad

Which is also super-weird, because my teenage kids and all their friends are really into Roxy Music. You could make a million dollars if you were a young Ferry soundalike right now, I'd-a thought.

The band isn't getting enough attention for this album, which is excellent, but they've never really been a big thing in the US even when they were kinda buzzy a decade ago.

Disappointed is so great and I finally figured out what song it reminds me of: Love at First Sight by XTC

I don't really hear the Roxy Music parallels

roxy music + gentle giant x XTC = fairly solid description imho. they've got the funk

great show! one brother had a huge grin on his face the whole time, playing drums or guitar

I think it's hard to sell a band in their age category to younger fans when the band isn't either pretending to be younger or one of those name-dropped "influential"/cult bands

Show at NYC was really good, love how they kept switching drums and guitar--banter was funny too

i was bummed they didn't do "a new town" in philly to give the bass player a little shine but man, what a show! no fucks to give, just song after great song

I think this band hits a nerve for me because they're roughly the same age as me and sound closer than any band to the band I've had in my head for the past few years.

Album is still so good.

Been loving But Not For You lately

I don't know much about this band but 'Disappointed (Ewan Pearson Extended Mix)' is such fun.

https://soundcloud.com/memphisindustries/field-music-disappointed-ewan-pearson-extended-mix/

i like the new record

My copy arrived this afternoon, now playing. Oh how I love this band.

Yeah, I consistently really enjoy these guys.

FWIW Time in Joy kind of sounds like Siberian Khartu

this is great. love these guys. last two songs on the album are next-level symphonic

I haven't heard it yet, but their last one ended up being my least favourite album of theirs.

I have only half heard this, and it seems incredibly good so far.

i have listened to this once and altho i try to give any album time, especially when the band in question has earned that with their prior output, i will note that i am contemplating staying at work overnight so i don't have to listen to this again on the commute home.

While I wouldn't go that far, I was similarly nonplussed

The Noisy Days Are Over and Disappointed was an awesome way to start an album but to rest of Commontime was drudgery and that seems to have spilt over into this

Measure still their best by miles obv

it's no week that was but what is?

I really dig it - too many gauzy dreamy numbers but the ones that are sharp are sharp. It reminds me of Wasp Star but with more charm.

Okay, so it turns out that Open Here is their best album yet. I tried to recall the last time a Field Music LP blew me away this much and I realised none of their prior work has, not even Tones of Town. Quite remarkable, since Commontime bored me.

Open Here > Tones of Town > Plumb
> Commontime > Field Music > Measure

such is the wonderful variety of ilx that I would pretty much reverse those arrows

Curious to hear why your prefer Open Here to Commontime, turrican

The first and last tracks on Open Here blow pretty much everything on Commontime out of the water, IMO.

Measure is overlong, riddled with filler and a slog, but there's a great record in there somewhere. One of 'em has to come last, though.

(I've since come around to a fair bit of Commontime - 'The Noisy Days are Over' and 'Trouble at the Lights' particularly)

First listen to Making a New World. I’m ... not sure ... about it. I think it feels shorter than it is, which is a good sign.

Haven't picked it up yet but probably will do once payday rolls around.

From a commission and all about the aftermath of the first world war, isn't it?

I do wonder why Field Music have faded so much. I think they maybe grew too obsessed with working on a single sound, and they've worked the life out of it

I'm sort of annoyed such a bunch of nitwits have taken the title from a Paul Nash masterpiece, which is a really beautiful haunted title as well as a painting - which I can't imagine their music matching the gravitas of tbh!

Might be the first time Field Music have been described as “such a bunch of nitwits.”

probably melt cunts as well!

they most likely are led-by-donkieys type feebs that became radicalised by threat of austerity finishing off 6 music!