Not Like Everyone Else

 

Field Music - Plumb [MI0208LP UK 2012 24-Bit FLAC]

In order to preserve sonic fidelity, this record has been mastered using significantly less compression and limiting than most contemporary records. For maximum listening pleasure, please turn your stereo system UP!

It is refreshing to read the above on the sleeve notes of Field Music's fifth album, Plumb. This is a thirty-five minute, fifteen track album with so many interchanging time signatures, sophisticated harmonies and rapidly shifting arrangements that you could be mistaken that this is a seventies 'classic rock' album. Plumb is actually an homage to the band's working class roots in Sunderland - it is a brave record which many just won't get, especially those who misunderstand the term progressive rock. Field Music are very much a British indie band, they just wanted to do something different after another break in their careers to focus on family life.

You need to listen to Plumb as a complete record, it is tempting to dip in and out of the the fuller tracks (there are a few over three minutes), however to fully absorb this album, you need to understand how everything fits together. When you do just that, Plumb becomes a great album.

A1 Start The Day Right
A2 It's Okay To Change
A3 Sorry Again, Mate
A4 A New Town
A5 Choosing Sides
A6 A Prelude To Pilgrim Street
A7 Guillotine
B1 Who'll Pay The Bills?
B2 So Long Then
B3 Is This The Picture?
B4 From Hide And Seek To Heartache
B5 How Many More Times?
B6 Ce Soir
B7 Just Like Everyone Else
B8 (I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing