Field Music
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Field Music are an English rock band from Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, that formed in 2004.[1] The band's core consists of brothers David Brewis and Peter Brewis. Andrew Moore was the original keyboard player. Their line-up has at times featured members of both Maxïmo Park and The Futureheads.
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Background information | |
Origin | Sunderland, England, United Kingdom |
Genres | Indie rock, art rock, progressive pop |
Years active | 2004–present |
Labels | Memphis Industries |
Members | David Brewis Peter Brewis Andrew Lowther (touring band) Kev Dosdale (touring band) Liz Corney (touring band) |
Past members | Andrew Moore Tom English (touring band) Ian Black (touring band) |
Field Music have been called one of the few bands to outlast the indie guitar band explosion of the mid-2000s. Describing the band as "a truly artful proposition in the pseudo-filled landscape of contemporary Brit art-rock", music blog The Fantastic Hope puts this down in part to their "un-self-conscious anti-fashion stance", arguing that Field Music's "wayward pop from the fringes of academia is one of the most worthwhile ways in which rock//indie/guitar music/white pop/whatever might evolve".[2] Critics have compared their music to acts as diverse as Steely Dan, XTC, Prefab Sprout, Peter Gabriel, Scritti Politti, Talking Heads and Todd Rundgren.[3] They have also been nominated for the Mercury Prize.[4]