Field Music Flat White Moon TRANSPARENT COLOURED VINYL LP

Field Music Flat White Moon TRANSPARENT COLOURED VINYL LP

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Orion From The Street
Do Me A Favour
Not When You’re In Love
Out of the Frame
When You Last Heard
From Linda
No Pressure
In This City
I’m The One Who Wants
To Be With You
Meant To Be
Invisible Days
The Curtained Room
You Get Better

“We want to make people feel good about things that we feel terrible
about.” says David Brewis, who has co-led the band Field Music with his
brother Peter since 2004. It’s a statement which seems particularly fitting to
their latest album, ‘Flat White Moon’, released via Memphis Industries.  Sporadic sessions for the album began in late 2019 at the pair’s studio in
Sunderland, slotted between rehearsals and touring. The initial recordings
pushed a looser performance aspect to the fore, inspired by some of their
very first musical loves; Free, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles;
old tapes and LPs pilfered from their parents’ shelves. But a balance
between performance and construction has always been an essential part of
Field Music. By March 2020, recording had already begun for most of the
album’s tracks and, with touring for ‘Making A New World’ winding down,
Peter and David were ready to plough on and finish the record.  The playfulness that’s evident in much of ‘Flat White Moon’’s music became
a way to offset the darkness and the sadness of many of the lyrics. Much of
the album is plainly about loss and grief and also about the guilt and
isolation which comes with that. Those personal upheavals are apparent on
songs like ‘Out of the Frame’, where the loss of a loved one is felt more
deeply because they can’t be found in photographs and compounded by the
suspicion that you caused their absence, or on ‘When You Last Heard From
Linda’, which details the confusion of being unable to penetrate a best
friend's loneliness in the darkest of circumstances.  Some songs are more impressionistic. ‘Orion From The Streets’ combines
Studio Ghibli, a documentary about Cary Grant and an excess of wine to
become a hallucinogenic treatise on memory and guilt. Others, such as ‘Not
When You’re In Love’, are more descriptive. Here, the narrator guides us
through slide-projected scenes, questioning the ideas and semantics of ‘love’
as well the reliability of his own memory.  For the most part, the album has fewer explicitly political themes than
previous records, though there is ‘No Pressure’, about a political class who
feel no obligation to take responsibility if they can finagle a narrative
instead. And there’s ‘I’m The One Who Wants To Be With You’, which skirts
its way around toxic masculinity through teenage renditions of soft-rock
balladry.  On ‘Flat White Moon’ Field Music take on the challenge of representing
negative emotions in a way that doesn’t dilute or obscure them but which
can still uplift. The result is a generous record of bounteous musical ideas, in
many ways Field Music’s most immediately gratifying to date.