Field Music

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!