Plumb
Following their 2010 double album, Field Music's latest finds them returning to the more succinct and fractured impulses that guided their earlier work.
In the lineage of McCartney, Davies, Partridge, and Albarn, Field Music is a purveyor of catchy, cutting commentary on the weird patterns of modern British life. Yet the duo’s worldview and the minute machinations of its music draw equally from the groundbreaking 20th-century German philosophers Kraftwerk, who only…
So, here’s Plumb. The second record after the hiatus, and the first following the double-record detonation of (Measure).…
Field Music's fourth album is their most precise, most musicianly, most progressive album to date.
Album number four from the brothers Brewis is a notable departure from 2010’s Measure, which, like its title denotes, was restrained by a more ‘classic’ songwriting structure. Plumb is a richly textured and many-layered display of musical wizardry. Songs go through so many different changes that it becomes difficult to keep track, with fragmentations that can sound a bit too much like the more demanding moments of Pink Floyd for these ears.
Plumb marks the return of the brainy Peter and David Brewis, after setting up a new recording space (the previous spot they shared with The Futureheads closed its doors after 10 years). Life goes on, and thankfully so does Field Music.
Field Music add heavenly harmonies to their singular indie-rock on an impressive fourth album, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>
It's baffling on first listen, but on closer inspection Field Music's fourth album reveals a pop sharpness amid its complexity, writes <strong>Dave Simpson</strong>
Field Music - Plumb review: So serene...a crossing into a world where the factual and concrete meet the ethereal.
Lack patience with prog rock’s long-windedness? This is just the ticket. CD review by Kieron Tyler