5 ...according to our Business Lady on 12 February 2010.
What can I say about ‘Measure’? It’s all over the shop, a sprawling mass of fractured grooves and foolhardy reinterpretations of music that, under general circumstances, should be left well alone. It's not unfair to call Field Music the 10CC of our time but that would be forgetting the influence of The Beatles, Roxy Music, Queen, Sparks, Led Zep, Supertramp, Prince, Bowie and many, many more. ‘Measure’ is a celebration of the recording studio and the creative possibilities it presents to folk with an abundance of ideas and musical skill. Much like Jim O’ Rourke’s ‘Insignificance’ on ‘Measure’ the group are confident and playful in their approach, casually reshaping classics in their own image. Nothing here you could call entirely new but what they do with the source material is a thing of wonder.
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Sound clips for Measure by Field Music: on vinyl at Norman Records UK. Double LP (vinyl), Memphis Industries, MI0149LP, £12.79.
· Field Music are one of the UK’s most critically celebrated bands, and their return after a three year hiatus is causing huge excitement amongst fans, press, radio and online. · The new album is a gloriously rich opus that entwines the brothers’ renewed love of the rock music cannon with a rediscovery of some of pop’s overlooked adventurers. · ‘Field Music (Measure)’ is available in a special edition double CD packaged in a gatefold wallet with poster, and extremely limited edition gatefold double vinyl (strictly limited to 500 copies).
