Field Music [2LP] (20 Year Anniversary Edition)

Field Music - Field Music [2LP] (20 Year Anniversary Edition)

In October 2025, Field Music will release an expanded 2-disc edition of their self-titled debut, in celebration of the album's 20th anniversary. The second disc of this new set will include the first ever vinyl release for the 2006 b-sides collection, Write Your Own History, as well as 3 more rare/unreleased recordings from the band's formative years, brand new liner notes from former NME writer James Snodgrass, and archive material from the North East music milieu which gave birth to Field Music, The Futureheads, Maximo Park and more.

Field Music's debut album arrived when post-punk-influenced guitar music was enjoying a popular renaissance. But where other bands combined skinny jeans and football chants, Peter and David Brewis, along with keyboard-player Andrew Moore, constructed a soundworld which was sonically terse, but brimming with musical detail and sophistication, borrowing from the baroque-pop excursions of Van Dyke Parks, The Left Banke and Todd Rundgren, as much as from Wire and Television. Setting a template which has sustained the band ever since, the album was self-produced at the band's own studio space in Sunderland, with the brothers' lofty ambitions far outstripping their limited experience. "As naive as it might sound, we really wanted to make music which didn't rely on cliches," says David, "And, while I don't think we quite succeeded, I do think that first record stands as something quite unique." 
A1. If Only the Moon Were Up A2. Tell Me Keep Me A3. Pieces A4. Luck is a Fine Thing A5. Shorter Shorter A6. It's not the Only Way to Feel Happy B1. 17 B2. Like When You Meet Someone Else B3. You Can Decide B4. Got to Get The Nerve B5. Got to Write a Letter C1. You're So Pretty... C2. You're Not Supposed To C3. In The Kitchen C4. Trying to Sit Out C5. Breakfast Song C6. Feeding the Birds D1. I'm Tired D2. Test Your Reaction D3. Alternating Current D4. Can You See Anything D5. This Old Design D6. A Litte Love D7. I Need to Get Sick on You Now