Making a New World

by Field Music

Overview

Set in the years following the First World War, Field Music's first concept album explores many of the consequential effects, events, and circumstances that shaped both Britain and the world at large. More a curious set of vignettes than an expansive narrative, Making a New World sees brothers David and Peter Brewis applying their dynamic art-rock to such concepts as town planning ("Best Kept Garden"), the birth of air-to-ground radio communications ("Do You Read Me?"), and the development of the modern sanitary napkin ("Only in a Man's World"). It's hardly the stuff on which rock & roll was built, but Field Music have a way of transmuting the dry and historical into surprisingly engaging pop songs full of supple musicality and a passion for the source. Growing out of a project originally commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, the band found a fertile creative muse in their research of post-war history. Notions of design, art, history, society, and technology are not necessarily new to Field Music's oeuvre, and the scholastic nature of this rather complex song cycle somehow makes sense in the Brewis Brothers' hands. Their distinctive brand of indie pop has been constantly refined over the years as they smartly thread between bits of clever guitar rock, synth pop, soul, disco, and chamber pop, this time adding in some light prog-rock sophistication and the sort of aerodynamic new wave that harkens back to Thomas Dolby's early work. Like each of their previous releases, Making a New World is an ambitious, original, and exquisitely crafted work, full of rich details and compelling songs that translate the past into modern new shapes. ~ Timothy Monger

Product Details

Release Date:	01/10/2020
Label:	Memphis Industries
UPC:	5056340100363
Rank:	106046

Tracks

1. Sound Ranging
2. Silence
3. Coffee or Wine
4. Best Kept Garden
5. I Thought You Were Something Else
6. Between Nations
7. A Change of Heir
8. Do You Read Me?
9. From a Dream, Into My Arms
10. Beyond That of Courtesy
11. A Shot to the Arm
12. A Common Language, Pt. 1
13. A Common Language, Pt. 2
14. Nikon, Pt. 1
15. Nikon, Pt. 2
16. If the Wind Blows Towards the Hospital
17. Only in a Man's World
18. Money Is a Memory
19. An Independent State

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Field Music   Primary Artist
Peter Brewis   Guitar,Vocals
Kev Dosdale   Guitar
David Brewis   Drums,Vocals
Andrew Lowther   Guitar (Bass)
Liz Corney   Organ,Piano,Vocals

Technical Credits

Field Music   Arranger,Producer
Peter Brewis   Programming
Kev Dosdale   Animation,Art Direction
Andy Martin   Photography
David Brewis   Programming