Rise

Formats

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  MI0208CDCD  £6.00

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  MI0208LPLong Player  £15.00

Label

Memphis Industries

Field Music

Plumb

Vinyl is 180 gsm purple vinyl w/download code.

A new Field Music album is always a delicious proposition – and this, the band's fourth, offers much to sate the appetite. There are innumerable time signatures and gear shifts – a dozen just in the opener, Start the Day Right. However, perseverance brings rich rewards, as the complexities start to make a weird sense and you end up swept along in their ever-changing moods and a musical palette that stretches from the Beatles' Abbey Road-era orchestrations to XTC's jerky pop.

Where 2010's Field Music (Measure) sprawled over 70 minutes, Plumb crams 15 tracks into 35, never losing pop sharpness, whether funky – Is This a Picture? – or angular-anthemic – (I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing. There's an undercurrent of what Pink Floyd once called "quiet desperation … the English way" – to Sorry Again, Mate, or the beautiful, childhood reminiscing Hide and Seek to Heartache, but these are terrific songs worthy of celebration.

Tracklist

• 1 - Start the day right
  2 - It's okay to change
  3 - Sorry again, mate
  4 - A new town
  5 - Choosing sides
  6 - A prelude to pilgrim street
  7 - Guillotine
  8 - Who'll pay the bills?
  9 - So long then
  10 - Is this the picture?
  11 - From hide and seek to heartache
  12 - How many more times?
  13 - Ce soir
  14 - Just like everyone else
  15 - (I keep thinking about) a new thing

  Field Music Rise Best Of Bonus CD Track List:

  1 - Shorter Shorter
  2 - If Only the Moon Were Up
  3 - Got To Get The Nerve
  4 - Tones of Town
  5 - A House Is Not A Home
  6 - In Context
  7 - Rockist Part 1
  8 - Rockist Part 2
  9 - Scratch The Surface
  10 - Its All Gone Quiet
  11 - Lets Write A Book
  12 - Choosing Numbers
  13 - Them That Do Nothing