Album artwork for Open Here by Field Music
Album artwork for Open Here by Field Music

Field Music return with their sixth album, Open Here. The two years since Commontime have been strange and turbulent. If you thought the world made some kind of sense, you may have questioned yourself a few times in the past two years. And that questioning, that erosion of faith - in people, in institutions, in shared experience - runs through every song on Field Music's new album.

But there's no gloom here. For Peter and David Brewis, playing together in their small riverside studio has been a joyful exorcism. Open Here is the last in a run of five albums made at the studio, an unprepossessing unit on a light industrial estate in Sunderland. Whilst the brothers weren't quite tracking while the wrecking balls came, the eviction notice received in early 2017 gave the brothers a sense of urgency in the recording of Open Here. There probably won't be many other rock records this year, or any year, which feature quite so much flute and flugelhorn (alongside the saxophones, string quartet and junk box percussion). But somehow or other, it comes together. Over thirteen years and six albums, Field Music have managed to carve a niche where all of these sounds can find a place; a place where pop music can be as voracious as it wants to be.

Field Music

Open Here

Memphis Industries
Album artwork for Open Here by Field Music
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£15.99

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Released 16/04/2020Catalogue Number

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Album artwork for Open Here by Field Music
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Released 16/04/2020Catalogue Number

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Album artwork for Open Here by Field Music
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Released 02/02/2018Catalogue Number

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Field Music

Open Here

Memphis Industries
Album artwork for Open Here by Field Music
LP

£15.99

Black
Includes download code
Released 16/04/2020Catalogue Number

mi0476lp

Learn more
Album artwork for Open Here by Field Music
LP +

£19.99

LP++ - Indie Shops Exclusive on 180 Gram Transparent Vinyl housed in Die Cut Sleeve with Download.

Released 16/04/2020Catalogue Number

MI0476LPX

Learn more
Album artwork for Open Here by Field Music
CD

£5.99

Released 02/02/2018Catalogue Number

mi0476cd

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Field Music return with their sixth album, Open Here. The two years since Commontime have been strange and turbulent. If you thought the world made some kind of sense, you may have questioned yourself a few times in the past two years. And that questioning, that erosion of faith - in people, in institutions, in shared experience - runs through every song on Field Music's new album.

But there's no gloom here. For Peter and David Brewis, playing together in their small riverside studio has been a joyful exorcism. Open Here is the last in a run of five albums made at the studio, an unprepossessing unit on a light industrial estate in Sunderland. Whilst the brothers weren't quite tracking while the wrecking balls came, the eviction notice received in early 2017 gave the brothers a sense of urgency in the recording of Open Here. There probably won't be many other rock records this year, or any year, which feature quite so much flute and flugelhorn (alongside the saxophones, string quartet and junk box percussion). But somehow or other, it comes together. Over thirteen years and six albums, Field Music have managed to carve a niche where all of these sounds can find a place; a place where pop music can be as voracious as it wants to be.