2017-12-28
bought this on cd for my gym trainer's birthday as ...
..he was going through marital stress, so I initially equated the lyrics to family breakdown and tension. I was wrong. Musically, I lazily labelled them as Talking Heads/Steely Dan . I was wrong again . Field Music are inspirational! They combine their vast musical abilities and chuck the whole lot on a progressive expansive canvas as broad as the firmament itself to produce collections of classy, catchy and complex pop songs that echo the best of every good artist that ever lived under the sun.
Yet the are true originals!
Give this five listens and less immediate songs such as Indeed it Is will become major soundtracks to your daily beautiful service. After 10 listens, Stay Awake will crawl out of it's lower league status to win the European cup. The rest grab you straight away - like Ian Porterfield in 1973..
....as Bob Stokoe dances in a Bob Stokoe hat..
Any Welshmen ever played for Sunderland?