Field Music

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Field Music
Field Music at The Water Rats, Kings Cross, London, UK. November, 2007.
Field Music at The Water Rats, Kings Cross, London, UK. November, 2007.
Background information
OriginSunderland, England, United Kingdom
GenresIndie rock, art rock, progressive pop
Years active2004–present
LabelsMemphis Industries
MembersDavid Brewis
Peter Brewis
Andrew Lowther (touring band)
Kev Dosdale (touring band)
Liz Corney (touring band)
Past membersAndrew Moore
Tom English (touring band)
Ian Black (touring band)

Field Music are an English rock band from Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, that formed in 2004.[1] The band's core consists of brothers David Brewis and Peter Brewis. Andrew Moore was the original keyboard player. Their line-up has at times featured members of both Maxïmo Park and The Futureheads.

Field Music have been called one of the few bands to outlast the indie guitar band explosion of the mid-2000s. Describing the band as "a truly artful proposition in the pseudo-filled landscape of contemporary Brit art-rock", music blog The Fantastic Hope puts this down in part to their "un-self-conscious anti-fashion stance", arguing that Field Music's "wayward pop from the fringes of academia is one of the most worthwhile ways in which rock//indie/guitar music/white pop/whatever might evolve".[2] Critics have compared their music to acts as diverse as Steely Dan, XTC, Prefab Sprout, Peter Gabriel, Scritti Politti, Talking Heads and Todd Rundgren.[3] They have also been nominated for the Mercury Prize.[4]

  1. ^ Brown, Paul (22 July 2015). "Album Review: Field Music – Music for Drifters / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  2. ^ Niven, Alex (30 September 2011). "Reason To Be Moderately Hopeful About The Future Of Music No. 265". The Fantastic Hope. Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
  3. ^ Petridis, Alexis (4 February 2016). "Field Music: Commontime review – infectious warmth from the critics' favourite indie duo". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Field Music: 'The music industry would be pissed off if we won Barclaycard Mercury Prize'". NME. 12 October 2012. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2018.