UKNY For February 3
Field Music (photo courtesy of Memphis Industries, PR)
The sublime art-pop bliss of Field Music, the band led by siblings David and Peter Brewis, never quite receives the Stateside love and attention it deserves. (They're somewhat of a cult favorite in their native U.K. too, but do sell out venues and were nominated for a Mercury Prize back in 2012.)
The brothers' effervescent seventh album, Open Here, reflects on fatherhood, the uncertain future, and a Brexit-hobbled Britain, lifted by the band's deft flourishes of retro-pop majesty that cast a reverent eye on production elements of XTC, ELO, David Bowie, and even early Genesis.
On UKNY at 11, something from Field Music's Open Here, released yesterday, plus new treats from Ultimate Painting, Erland Cooper, and two bands featuring members of Fat White Family and Childhood: Warmduscher and Insecure Men. Also, a dense, luminous single from Brisbane's shoegazey Harriette Pilbeam, who records as Hatchie.
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Songs played:
1. The Go! Team, “Mayday,” Semicircle
2. Warmduscher, “Big Wilma,” single
3. Girl Ray, “Don’t Got Back at Ten,” Earl Grey
4. (Commonwealth Cut: Brisbane, Australia) Hatchie, “Sure,” single
5. Cocteau Twins, “Cherry-Coloured Funk,” Heaven or Las Vegas
6. Django Django feat. Self-Esteem, “Surface to Air,” Marble Skies
7. Field Music, “Time in Joy,” Open Here
8. Insecure Men, “I Don’t Want To Dance (With My Baby),” Insecure Men
9. Superorganism, “Everybody Wants To Be Famous,” single
10. The Fall, “Hit the North, Pt. 1,” The Frenz Experiment
11. The Lovely Eggs, “Wiggy Giggy,” This is Eggland
12. (Commonwealth Cut: Montréal, Canada) Look Vibrant, “My Nerves,” The Up Here Place
13. Ultimate Painting, “Not Gonna Burn Myself Anymore,” Up!
14. Erland Cooper, “Shalder,” single
