Tones Of Town
Sunderland band and Futureheads pals follow their understated 2005 self-titled debut with another record of baroque indie pop, time signature changes, and clever hooks.
Britain's Field Music straddles a line that's seemingly more of a vast divide: the space between jittery post-punk and sunny, '60s/'70s pop. It's a credit to the group's skills that the styles sound so complementary on Tones Of Town, as if drenching angular guitars with lush, Queen-esque vocal harmonies is completely…
'Tones Of Town' is a surprisingly experimental turn for the Mackem three...We suspect that Field Music may have been spending quite a bit of time going through their parent’s old record collection when they weren’t extensively touring the world.
Field Music makes this kind of non-flashy indie-pop that tends to be critically well-received but gains traction with a much smaller (if still fiercely...