Field Music - Field Music / 20 Year Anniversary Edition (Preorder 24/10/25)

Field Music - Field Music / 20 Year Anniversary Edition (Preorder 24/10/25)

Label: Memphis Industries - MI043LPX2 - 5056340108376
Format: 2 LP, Album, Orange + Green
Country: UK
Released: 24th Oct 2025
Genre: Alternative
Style: Alternative

Description
In October 2025, Field Music will release an expanded 2-disc
edition of their self-titled debut, in celebration of the album’s 20th
anniversary. The second disc of this new set will include the first
ever vinyl release for the 2006 b-sides collection, Write Your Own
History, as well as 3 more rare/unreleased recordings from the
band’s formative years, brand new liner notes from former NME
writer James Snodgrass, and archive material from the North
East music milieu which gave birth to Field Music, The
Futureheads, Maximo Park and more.
Field Music’s debut album arrived when post-punk-influenced
guitar music was enjoying a popular renaissance. But where
other bands combined skinny jeans and football chants, Peter
and David Brewis, along with keyboard-player Andrew Moore,
constructed a soundworld which was sonically terse, but
brimming with musical detail and sophistication, borrowing from
the baroque-pop excursions of Van Dyke Parks, The Left Banke
and Todd Rundgren, as much as from Wire and Television.
Setting a template which has sustained the band ever since, the
album was self-produced at the band’s own studio space in
Sunderland, with the brothers’ lofty ambitions far outstripping
their limited experience. “As naive as it might sound, we really
wanted to make music which didn’t rely on clichés,” says David,
“And, while I don’t think we quite succeeded, I do think that first
record stands as something quite unique.”
This reissue also marks 20 years of the band’s association with
the pioneering and beloved Memphis Industries label. “Back in
the summer of 2004, we sent a CD-R of the unmixed album to
them with a half-pleading, half-defiant letter, saying we’d release
it ourselves if no one else was interested,” remembers David,
“and it must have landed on their desk at an opportune moment
because 20 years and 21 albums later, they’re still putting up with
us.”

Tracklist

A
If Only the Moon Were Up
Tell Me Keep Me
Pieces
Luck is a Fine Thing
Shorter Shorter
It's Not the Only Way to Feel Happy

B
17
Like When You Meet Someone Else
You Can Decide
Got to Get The Nerve
Got to Write a Letter
Youre So Pretty…

C
Youre Not Supposed To
In The Kitchen
Trying to Sit Out
Breakfast Song
Feeding the Birds
I'm Tired
D
Test Your Reaction
Alternating Current
Can You See Anything
This Old Design
A Litte Love
I Need to Get Sick on You Now