Field Music

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Field Music
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Field Music
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Articles 5

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Field Music

As the Brewis brothers, the mainstays of Field Music, prepare to release a new album, they guide Jonathan Wright through their work together – and apart – via 10 key releases

A Quietus Interview

Ire And Fury: An Interview With Field Music

David Brewis talks to John Freeman about Field Music’s sixth album – the brilliant Open Here - and how a post-Brexit, post-Trump world fueled some of the Brewis brother’s angriest songs to date

A Quietus Interview

Father Figures: An Interview With Field Music

John Freeman heads up to Sunderland to eat falafel and meet with the Brewis brothers to find out why the sinewy pop of Field Music’s new album Commontime was inspired by fatherhood, Hall & Oates and hatred for a certain brand of 4x4 car

A Quietus Interview

Fears Faced: School Of Language’s David Brewis Interviewed

Field Music's David Brewis chats to John Freeman about how the new album for his School Of Language solo project was inspired by "weirdness and anxiety" and Justin Timberlake

A Quietus Interview

Not Your Typical Mackems: Field Music Interviewed

Chris Roberts talks to David Brewis about sibling relationships and a love for Led Zeppelin - apart from "their Tolkien stuff", of course...

News 9

Field Music Detail New LP, ‘Flat White Moon’

On the new record, the brothers wanted to make "something which just feels good and feels physical"

Field Music At The Imperial War Museum

They’ll play new songs at IWM Salford and IWM London. Abigail Ward, of Manchester Digital Music Archive, spoke to David about the project

Caught By The River Calder Announced

Caught by the River to host first ever mid-winter weekender this January in Hebden Bridge

LISTEN: New Field Music Instrumental

An instrumental album inspired by a 1929 documentary

THIS WEEKEND: PLACE Festival

Aldeburgh Music's annual festival of landscape taking place this weekend, featuring Iain Sinclair, Jay Griffiths, Philip Hoare, Paul Morley and others

Field Music Announce Two Live Dates

Sunderland band to perform live soundtrack to 20s silent documentary

WIN: Field Music & Jessie Ware Tickets

Two pairs of tickets up for grabs for Mercury gig jointly headlined by Field Music, Jessie Ware and Lianne La Havas

Mercury Prize Nominees: What They Say

The Quietus donned its wristband, drank some Estrella and joined the press queue at the prize launch yesterday to get the nominees' reactions

Field Music To Release New Album

Sunderland's Brothers Brewis to release Plumb in February, tour UK

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Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden’s The Other Side Of The Underneath

Jane Arden's experimental work about schizophrenia was the only British feature directed by a woman in the 1970s, and remains furiously relevant in its depiction of mental illness, finds Andrew Key

Film

You Leave Me Hanging: Time And Music In Hitchcock’s Vertigo

As its 60th anniversary sees it returning to British cinema screens, Adam Scovell dissects Hitchcock's use of time and repetition in his brilliant 1968 film, Vertigo

Film

Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100

Bram Stoker's antisemitism is well documented, but the villainous image of the outsider, deviant, Jew vampire has been reworked in the 100 years since Nosferatu was released, finds Noah Berlatsky

Film

Notes On Anti-Fascism And Frivolity In Raiders Of The Lost Ark At 40

In 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark seemed like mindless entertainment – but its legacy as an antifascist statement has only grown stronger in the last 40 years, finds Steve Erickson

Film

Caravan Of Hate: Sightseers Reviewed

Stuart Wright enjoys Ben Wheatley's murderous holiday comedy, which goes on nationwide theatrical release this Friday

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Dream A Little Dream: Beautiful Thing, Pride And Thatcher’s Shadow

Hettie MacDonald's 1996 coming-of-age film Beautiful Thing does a rare thing: it gives a gay couple a happy ending. Matt St. Clair writes on the film's enduring bravery

Film

Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, ‘Mumblecore’ Lynchpin

Chicago-based indie filmmaker and key figure in the regrettably named 'mumblecore' movement, Joe Swanberg discusses physics, graphic novels and working with non-actors to The Quietus as two of his films, _LOL_ and _Hannah Takes the Stairs_, are released in the UK by ICA films

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Reviews 7

Field Music Flat White Moon

Field Music Making a New World

Field Music Open Here

Field Music Music For Drifters

Field Music Plumb

A Trip To Oya In Oslo Via Pavement, Munch & MIA

Field Music Measure

Articles 5

The Strange World Of… Field Music

Ire And Fury: An Interview With Field Music

Father Figures: An Interview With Field Music

Fears Faced: School Of Language’s David Brewis Interviewed

Not Your Typical Mackems: Field Music Interviewed

News 9

Field Music Detail New LP, ‘Flat White Moon’

Field Music At The Imperial War Museum

Caught By The River Calder Announced

LISTEN: New Field Music Instrumental

THIS WEEKEND: PLACE Festival

Field Music Announce Two Live Dates

WIN: Field Music & Jessie Ware Tickets

Mercury Prize Nominees: What They Say

Field Music To Release New Album

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Flat White Moon

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Making a New World

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Open Here

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Music For Drifters

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Plumb

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