Field Music - Live at KCRW, Santa Monica, CA 2010 & 2016

Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW 

Santa Monica, CA
April 1, 2010
    
webstream recording (sound quality: Ex-; best-sounding webstream capture I've ever heard)

01 Them That Do Nothing 
02 Effortlessly

03 If Only the Moon 

     Were Up  

04 Something Familiar

05 Let's Write a Book

06 Rockist

      (School of Language cover)

07 Each Time Is a New Time

08 Share the Words

09 Tell Me Keep Me

10 Interview with DJ Jason Bentley

ROB SEZ: Field Music — how do they do it? How do the Brewis brothers throw so many genres into their magical musical blender and come out with such tasty prog-pop-funk+? And how the heck do they re-create it so effectively in a live setting? I'm hard-pressed to say which of these sets I like the best. They were recorded almost exactly 6 years apart, and have no songs in common. The sound quality is extraordinary for a webstream capture. Field Music just released their latest studio concoction, Flat White Moon (video of lead track "Orion from the Street" is below). I've heard it, and it's fab.

Field Music - the live band in 2016

                                  new album: Flat White Moon

Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW

Santa Monica, CA
March 30, 2016

webstream recording (sound quality: Ex-; best-sounding webstream capture I've ever heard)

01 Noisy Days Are Over

02 I'm Glad

03 Who'll Pay the Bills?

04 Disappointed

05 Don't You Want to Know

     What's Wrong? 

06 It's a Good Thing

07 Stay Awake

08 I Keep Thinking About a New Thing  

09 Interview with DJ Jason Bentley

FLAC

(lossless captures, lossy source)

   

MP3@320

   

   "Orion from the Street" - new video

    

Field Music - Glasgow, SCT 2018

The Quay Sessions
BBC Pacific Quay studios
Glasgow, Scotland
Jan. 10, 2018 (first broadcast was the following day) 

web stream (sound quality VG++)

SAMPLE: "Let's Write a Book" (live 2018)

Field Music = David & Peter Brewis & collaborators

01 Roddy Hart intro
02 Time In Joy
03 Them That Do Nothing 
04 Count It Up
05 interview
06 Disappointed
07 Let's Write a Book
08 The Noisy Days Are Over
09 Share a Pillow
10 No King No Princess
11 Stay Awake
12 Roddy Hart outro

TT: 45:53 mins
 
HUGE THANKS to auto_pilot for sharing

KEXP Radio
Live Session
Seattle, WA

A visual representation 
of what Field Music sound like...

March 28, 2015

preFM recording (sound quality: VG++)

01 The Noisy Days Are Over
02 I'm Glad
03 Disappointed
04 Don't You Want to Know 
     What's Wrong?

ROB SEZ:

The new album: Open Here

Are Field Music the next XTC? Or a combination of XTC, Wire, Prince & some band you've never heard of? The answer probably depends on which Field Music album you're enjoying and your own taste in music. One writer describes their sound as a "colorful and hyper-musical blend of tricky Beach Boys melodies filtered through a post-rock-meets-prog-rock-meets-soft-rock aesthetic" — which probably fit their sound several albums ago. However you describe it, it's rather "out there" for my sensibilities. But Field Music have been releasing music since 2005 and there's no denying they're hugely talented & quite entertaining. Your new cup of tea, perhaps? The new album, Open Here (4-star review from Mojo), is out today.

FLAC (2018 set in flac; 2015 lossy set is included) 

MP3@320

         
Learn more about Field Music at the band's own site, FB page and AllMusic