Blowdry Colossus, by Peter Brewis

Blowdry Colossus

by Peter Brewis

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mkittens At this point it is safe to say I will buy and love anything the Brewis Bros. put out. I am a YMO fan so this is like manna from heaven (whatever that phrase is supposed to mean). The live drumming mixed with incredibly detailed phrase work on synth and guitars displayed on this record is absolutely mind-blowing. Favorite track: Warm Wind.

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1.	Drumeoscene 04:46	buy track
2.	Lemoncadabra 06:04	buy track
3.	Blowdry Colossus 03:53
4.	Second Hand Slow 04:37
5.	Warm Wind 03:07
6.	Generation Dial Up 04:15
7.	Dog Bark Dark 04:15
8.	Smith Made Up 04:56
9.	Panda Tonic 04:50

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‘Blowdry Colossus’ is the new solo LP from Field Music’s Peter Brewis, due for release on the 6 October.

The record is Peter’s first solo venture since 2008’s The Week That Was and follows collaborative albums with Paul Smith (on 2014’s Frozen By Sight) and Sarah Hayes (on 2019’s You Tell Me). The album was recorded over the last year at the Field Music studio in Sunderland, and features contributions from Peter’s brother David, Sarah Hayes and Peter’s son Alexander.

The mostly-instrumental album takes cues from the knowing exotica of Yellow Magic Orchestra, the quizzical tunefulness of Thelonious Monk and the pastoral abstractions of Penguin Cafe Orchestra. It also has more than a touch of the hyperactive fizz of 8-bit game soundtracks. And like Kraftwerk’s records of the mid and late-70s, this is synthesizer music as art music rather than dance music. But where Kraftwerk took the melodic purity of Schubert and gave it a chilly formality, on Blowdry Colossus, Peter takes the same elevation of melody and plunges it into a kind of playful chaos, heavy with rhythmic ingenuity.

“I wanted to make something where the music was the focus.” says Peter, “With songs, the lyrics tend to carry the meaning: ‘This song is about...'. I wanted the music to be the meaning - the melodies, harmonies, sounds, structures.”

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released October 6, 2023

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