Field Music - Field Music (Measure)

4/5 stars
Album review by Ian Crichton.
Published 28 January 2010

It's been three years since Field Music announced their hiatus, and we'd be the first to warmly welcome them back to our stereos and stages - if they'd actually convinced us they'd taken the time off. The brothers Brewis are back from their non-holiday, and with a double album no less. Though no one expected Field Music to turn in a self-indulgent trainwreck for their first dalliance with two discs, it's surprising just how ambitious and packed to the gills with career-topping material Measure is. While it's separated into two distinct halves, all 72 minutes beg to be consumed in rapid succession like Panda Pops at a school disco: the winning combination of sledgehammerin' Peter Gabriel drums and stuttering 70s post-punk stylings with a Kinks-like predilection for simple melodies. It's that fuzzy Field Music groove we know and love, but it's back in abundance. Like they ever went away. [Ian Crichton]

 

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  • "Did the Large Hadron Collider trigger some kind of quantum boson explosion while we weren't looking? Has some mad scientist retrofitted a DeLorean with a flux capacitor again? Because the ten tracks found on this CD sound like we've been sent hurtling back to 2002, only to find that everything's significantly duller" sound familiar Ian?

    you bitched about lack of progression whilst seemingly lapping up this throwback band.

    Posted by Anonymous | Tuesday March 2010 @ 14:26

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  • Could it just be that the reviewer felt the Field Music album was a whole two stars better than the Tollbooth album, hmm?

    Posted by Comstock | Tuesday March 2010 @ 14:31

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