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 Field Music release Let’s Write a Book, the second single from their genre-razing third album Field Music (Measure), on 31st May, on Memphis Industries.

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On Let’s Write a Book younger Brewis brother, David, takes the lead, turning the pages back to the early 80s with the smooth precision of a talcum-footed northern funkster. The staccato intro hints at a Tangerine Dream sequence, before snapping into focus with a drum and percussion track that cranks the head forward into a glorious, neon-tinged groove.

Brewis’ high-range vocals and the interspersed synth washes point to Prince; while Beck’s midnight vultures preen and glide. In the pantheon of discarded brat-pack movies there lies a forgotten gem that traded pumped-up goonery for considered, rational action. Let’s Write a Book is the soundtrack.

If you’ve yet to delve the glorious depths of Field Music (Measure), don’t take this single page as chapter and verse. The double-album library is packed with references to the past. The rock-operatic scope of Quadrophenia. The weird and precise lines consumed on Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure. King Crimson. Talk Talk. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. The index would make a weighty tome on its own.

But shut the front cover and it reads Field Music, a carefully crafted, progressive space, where the rocks are honed and clean, pop socks are carefully arranged and the animals march to their own, idiosyncratic time signatures. Put the books aside for a while, open up and explore a world of wit, charm and fine, fine music.

And if a new single isn’t enough, Memphis Industries will be reissuing the brothers’ two solo albums – Peter Brewis’ The Week That Was and David Brewis’ School of Language album Sea From Shore – packaged together on 21 June.

Field Music will tour the UK from May onwards, swelling to a four-piece, with Kev Dosdale on guitar and Ian Black on bass.

Live dates:
20 May 2010 – Liverpool Sound City, Masque Loft, Liverpool
26 May 2010 – Concorde 2, Brighton
28 May 2010 – Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
29 May 2010 – Dot to Dot Festival, Bristol 30 May 2010 Evolution Festival, Newcastle
31 May 2010 – Dot to Dot Festival, Manchester
03 Jun 2010 – The Musician, Leicester
04 Jun 2010 – Guildhall, Gloucester
05 Jun 2010 – Wilde Theatre, Bracknell
26 Jun 2010 – Glastonbury Festival, Somerset
30 Jul 2010 – Eastleigh Music Festival
31 Jul 2010 – Camp Bestival, Dorset
22 Aug 2010 – Green Man Festival, Wales
10-12 Dec 2010 – ATP presents Bowlie 2, curated by Belle & Sebastian

Visit Field Music’s website to keep up-to-date with gigs and even explore the band’s studio.  

It looks like the video for Let’s Write a Book is not yet available, at least not on Youtube. So here’s the video for the first single from Field Music (Measure), Them That Do Nothing.