Jul 11, 2024 By Marina Malin

English art-rock band Field Music have announced a new album, Limits of Language, and shared the album opener and lead single, “Six Weeks, Nine Wells.” More

Nov 11, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2022. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because I was out sick. So once again this week’s list encompasses songs released in the last two weeks (although all but three of the songs are from this week). More

Nov 07, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Slug (aka Ian Black) has shared a new single, “Cut of Your Jib.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming album, Thy Socialite!, which will be out on January 20, 2023 via Field Music’s new label Daylight Savings. More

Nov 03, 2022 By Joey Arnone

David Brewis of English rock band Field Music has announced the release of a new solo album, The Soft Struggles, which will be out on February 24, 2023 via Daylight Saving. Brewis has also shared a new song from the album, “The Last Day.” More

Oct 01, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the 37th Songs of the Week of 2021. Old school rock was alive and well this week, with new songs from The Rolling Stones, Elton John and Stevie Wonder, Sting, John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, and David Bowie, but none of those tracks made our Songs of the Week list. More

Sep 30, 2021 By Mark Redfern

English rock band Field Music (led by brothers Peter and David Brewis) are releasing a new EP, Another Shot E.P., on October 15 via Memphis Industries. Now they have shared its second single, “Endlessly.” More

Sep 10, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 34th Songs of the Week of 2021. There were a whole lot of new songs this week, even though Monday was a holiday (Labor Day) here in the U.S. We narrowed it down to 12 favorites this week, with lots of good honorable mentions too. More

Sep 08, 2021 By Mark Redfern

English rock band Field Music (led by brothers Peter and David Brewis) have announced a new EP, Another Shot E.P., and shared its first single, “Someplace Dangerous.” Another Shot E.P. is due out October 15 via Memphis Industries. More

Apr 23, 2021 By Mark Redfern

English rock band Field Music (led by brothers Peter and David Brewis) have released a new album, Flat White Moon, today via Memphis Industries. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, today we posted our My Firsts interview with Peter Brewis. More

Apr 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Japanese Breakfast and HAIM on the two covers and is another edition of The Protest Issue, which examines the intersection of music and politics and features musicians photographed with protest signs of their own making. More

Apr 14, 2021 By Mark Redfern

English rock band Field Music (led by brothers Peter and David Brewis) are releasing a new album, Flat White Moon, on April 23 via Memphis Industries. Now they have shared the album’s fourth single, “Do Me a Favour.” More

Mar 24, 2021 By Mark Redfern

English rock band Field Music (led by brothers Peter and David Brewis) are releasing a new album, Flat White Moon, on April 23 via Memphis Industries. Now they have shared the album’s third single, “Not When You’re In Love,” via a video for the track. The band have also launched Field Musicast, a new podcast about the album. More

Feb 19, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2021. There was finally some good news this week. We landed on Mars! On Thursday NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on the red planet, a tricky engineering feat, to answer David Bowie’s question: “Is there life on Mars?” More

Feb 18, 2021 By Mark Redfern

English rock band Field Music (led by brothers Peter and David Brewis) have announced a new album, Flat White Moon, and shared a new song from it, “No Pressure,” via an amusing tutorial music video that shows fans how to achieve the band’s signature sound. More

Jan 15, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the second Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a little less trying than last week, but Donald Trump did earn the dubious honor of being the first ever president to be impeached twice. It was a fantastic week for new songs; after a slow week last week with only a Top 6, this week we present double the songs with a Top 12. More

Jan 13, 2021 By Joey Arnone

English rock band Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) have shared a new song titled “Orion From the Street,” in addition to announcing a set of UK tour dates slated for October 2021. Their upcoming album has also been announced for a release later in the year. More

Nov 24, 2020 By Joey Arnone

English rock band Field Music have shared a new song, “Home For Christmas,” which will be featured on label Memphis Industries’ upcoming compilation, Lost Christmas, set to release December 4. £2 from every LP purchase of Lost Christmas will go toward aiding Crisis’ Home for All Campaign, which works to provide housing support for those in need. More

Apr 21, 2020 By Lily Guthrie

School of Language, the pseudonym of Field Music’s David Brewis for his solo musical endeavors, has released a new five-song EP inspired by the music of Prince. It’s entitled I Could Have Loved U Better and is available on Bandcamp for pay-what-you-like pricing, to commemorate the fourth anniversary of Prince’s passing. More

Jan 10, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the first Songs of the Week of 2020. We haven’t done a Songs of the Week in a month, since December 6, but this list still mainly covers songs released in the last week or so. There weren’t too many new songs of note released in late November. More

Jan 10, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) have released a new album, Making a New World, inspired by the aftermath and repercussions of World War I, today via Memphis Industries and it’s our first Album of the Week of 2020. Find more info on the album below. Below that are streams of other notable albums released today: Georgia and Beach Slang. More

Jan 06, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) are releasing a new album, Making a New World, inspired by the aftermath and repercussions of World War I, this Friday (January 10) via Memphis Industries. More

Dec 11, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) are releasing a new album, Making a New World, inspired by the aftermath and repercussions of World War I, on January 10, 2020 via Memphis Industries. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Beyond That of Courtesy,” a song about the French suffrage movement. More

Nov 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. There were quite a few notable cover songs released this week, including some of the Christmas variety, but not as many strong originals as the last couple of weeks. Hence we are down to a Top 8 instead of our preferred Top 10. More

Nov 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) are releasing a new album, Making a New World, inspired by the aftermath and repercussions of World War I, on January 10, 2020 via Memphis Industries. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Money Is a Memory,” a song about Germany’s war reparations. More

Sep 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We’ve got a Top 11 this week, we couldn’t quite narrow it down to a Top 10. And #1 could’ve very easily been any of the Top 3. More

Sep 18, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) have announced a new album, Making a New World, inspired by the aftermath and repercussions of World War I, and shared its first single, “Only In a Man’s World.” More

May 30, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

School of Language is the side-project of David Brewis of Field Music (which is a duo with his brother Peter Brewis) and now he has surprise-released 45, a new album about Donald Trump and, as a press release puts it, “his dubious rise in politics, his capricious behavior while in office, and the motley cast of characters he has surrounded himself with.” More

Nov 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

You Tell Me is a new duo that features Field Music‘s Peter Brewis and Sarah Hayes of Admiral Fallow. They are releasing their self-titled debut album on January 11, 2019 via Memphis Industries. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Water Cooler.” More

Feb 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) released a new album, Open Here, a couple of weeks back via Memphis Industries. Now its excellent first single, “Count It Up,” has a video. The song points out how comparably lucky all of us who live in democratic and developed countries in the Western world are. More

Jan 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

After two weeks of a plethora of tracks vying to be one of our Songs of the Week, this week the pickings were slimmer. Thus this week we have only nine best songs, instead of 10. There were also a lot of covers this week. More

Jan 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) are releasing a new album, Open Here, on February 2 via Memphis Industries. Previously they shared a teaser trailer video for the album and its first full single “Count It Up,” which was followed by another song from the album, the six-minute flute-inflected “Time in Joy” (which was one of our Songs of the Week, as “Count It Up” would’ve been if we’d done a Songs of the Week the week it was released). More

Jan 12, 2018 By Mark Redfern

We haven’t posted a Songs of the Week post in quite awhile, as there weren’t that many new songs of note over the holidays or at the start of the year, but this week there was an tidal wave of new tracks worth considering for this list. It was definitely a challenge to narrow it down to only 10 (Franz Ferdinand and Marlon Williams almost made the Top 10). More

Jan 10, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) are releasing a new album, Open Here, on February 2, 2018 via Memphis Industries. Previously they shared a teaser trailer video for the album and its first full single “Count It Up.” Now they have shared another song from the album, the six-minute flute-inflected “Time in Joy.” More

Nov 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) are releasing a new album, Open Here, on February 2, 2018 via Memphis Industries. Previously they shared a teaser trailer video for the album, but now they have shared its first full single “Count It Up.” More

Nov 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) have announced a new album, Open Here, and shared a teaser trailer for the album featuring new music. They have also announced some U.K. tour dates. Open Here is due out February 2, 2018 via Memphis Industries. More

Feb 01, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) are releasing their new album, Commontime, this Friday (February 5) via Memphis Industries. Previously the band shared the album’s first single, “The Noisy Days Are Over” and its video, as well as another song from the record, “Disappointed.” Now you can stream the whole album below via The Guardian, who premiered it. More

Jan 12, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) are releasing their new album, Commontime, on February 5, 2016 via Memphis Industries. Previously the band shared the album’s first single, “The Noisy Days Are Over” and its video. Now the band has shared another song from the record, “Disappointed,” which premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show and which you can stream below. More

Dec 08, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) are releasing their new album, Commontime, on February 5, 2016 via Memphis Industries. Previously the band shared the album’s first single, “The Noisy Days Are Over.” Now the song has a video, which you can watch below. More

Oct 13, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

British duo Field Music (brothers Peter and David Brewis) have announced a new album, shared its first single, and announced some U.S. tour dates. Commontime is due out February 5, 2016 via Memphis Industries. Below you can listen to its first single, “The Noisy Days Are Over.” More

Apr 08, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Today School of Language, the solo side-project of Field Music’s David Brewis, released its second album Old Fears. More

Jun 24, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

In 1929 Scottish director John Grierson released a pioneering silent film called Drifters, coining the documentary genre in the process. More

Sep 12, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Django Django, Jessie Ware, Richard Hawley, alt-J, Field Music are among the names announced as part of this year’s nominees for the Mercury Prize. More

Sep 05, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Earlier this year, shortly after delivering their newest album Plumb, Field Music announced that they would release an album of covers to coincide with their upcoming fall tour through the UK. More

Apr 20, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Known for delivering stellar renditions from the catalog of The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, and even The Pet Shop Boys, Field Music has announced that the band will follow-up its recently released album Plumb with an album of covers due out sometime this fall. More

Mar 12, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Under the Radar’s Winter (March/April) Issue will be hitting the stands soon. The issue features an In the Studio 2012 themed cover with the frontmen of three notable acts set to release new albums later this year—Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth, Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste, and Twin Shadow’s George Lewis Jr. The issue also features interviews with Air, Bear in Heaven, Best Coast, Andrew Bird, Chairlift, Dan Deacon, First Aid Kit, Grimes, of Montreal, Frankie Rose, Spiritualized, Tame Impala, Tegan and Sara, and much more. More

Feb 06, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

With their new album Plumb scheduled for release on Feb. 21, UK indie pop brothers David and Peter Brewis, aka Field Music, have granted NPR first crack at streaming the full 15-song effort. More

Jan 12, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

With their upcoming record Plumb due out at the end of February, UK pop duo Field Music have released a track from the effort called “A New Town.” More

Oct 22, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

The hook-laden Sunderland indie rockers Field Music will release their third album soon. It’s their first since 2007’s pretty dang solid Tones of Town and it happens to be a double album. The new song suite is titled Measure and it’s set to drop February 16th of next year, via Memphis Industries/Revolver. More

Feb 08, 2019 By Max Pilley

The venerated British indie rock band Field Music have done a lot in their 15 years of existence, its core fraternal duo David and Peter Brewis having started multiple off shoot projects on top of their main band’s six studio albums and other assorted soundtrack work. This January, however, saw perhaps their most unique project to date-a collaboration with the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester. More

Feb 19, 2016 By Mark Redfern

For Under the Radar’s 13th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2015. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2015 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. Here are some answers from brothers David and Peter Brewis of Field Music. More

Dec 15, 2009 By Under the Radar Staff

Under the Radar‘s Best of the Decade/Year-End Issue features our Best of the Decade Artist Survey. For Under the Radar’s 7th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the last decade and asked them for a list of their best albums of the decade. Some of the surveys didn’t make it in the issue and some answers from surveys that did make it in the issue had to be trimmed for space. Those surveys and answers are posted on our website. Here is a web-exclusive survey from David Brewis of Field Music and School of Language.

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Feb 15, 2012 By J. Pace

Plumb marks the return of the brainy Peter and David Brewis, after setting up a new recording space (the previous spot they shared with The Futureheads closed its doors after 10 years). Life goes on, and thankfully so does Field Music. More