Field Music, In Context (Memphis Industries)

If the third album is traditionally regarded as the difficult one, the second is seen as the medium to smooth the edges of a band’s first opus and create its musical statement. And for Field Music there is no exception, even if instead of smoothing, the edges are now getting sharper. Their self titled first album played on piano melodies, string sections and The Beach Boys’ inspired vocal interaction of the Brewis brothers to soothe post punk razor sharp drum and bass beats. For ‘In Context’, the first single taken from Field Music’s second album ‘Tones of Town’, the music thread gains pace, with tighter bass lines, fast angular guitars, compact drumbeats and with adorning captivating bouts of short falsettos and violins to happily disorientate and surprise. Only the length of the song – it clocks in at over 3 minutes - and its repetitive lyrical nature slightly push the foot on the break and provide an harmonising finishing picture to the pieces of this music jigsaw.
Field Music describe their new album as having “better songs, better sounds, better lyrics, better singing, just better” and ‘In Context’ could have not had a more appropriate title for a first single.

Elisabetta P.