LATEST RELEASES
ABSENTEE - WEASEL - SINGLE - 30 OCTOBER 2005
First single on Memphis Industries from the warm and fuzzy Absentee boys and girls.
Its backed with new song "LMS" and comes on limited edition 7" (plus ulimited digital!) with a free sticker
designed by Absentee's very own hirsute guitarist Babs.
Listen to Weasel
here.
FIELD MUSIC - FIELD MUSIC - DEBUT ALBUM - 8 AUGUST 2005
The debut album from North East's finest Field Music. Immaculately produced and tightly constructed,
it's the small details on this record that demand repeated listens. Where tracks such as opener,
'If Only The Moon Were Up' and recent single 'You Can Decide' demonstrate an economic precision
that echoes a particularly English lineage that traces from Kate Bush through XTC to The Beatles
whilst managing to remain utterly idiosyncratic - it's when Field Music stray away from the three
minute conventional that their innovative approach becomes more obvious. These songs have a habit of
crawling under your skin and staying there.
"Like Wire arranged by the Beach Boys, Field Music may well be the Northeast's real find" 4/5 Uncut
"Perfect crystalline pop - this is a melodic gem" Time Out
"Field Music's Debut is a genius, folk-psychedelic shangbang" 8/10 NME
"Lustrous romance and loquacious imagination, an intriguing debut" 4/5 Mojo
"They've perfected the pop gem" ****The Times
"The most charming act to emerge this year" The Observer
"It sounds like Brian Wilson has wipped out the factor 35 and slapped it on The Beatles back" 4/5 The Fly
"An excellent debut" The Telegrpah
"Steeped in lush melodies and harmony, their songs are full of rare twists and turns" 4/5 DJ
"An encylopedia of pop music" Album Of The Week Metro
"Their debut brims with crystalline keyboard,heaven sent harmonies and beautiful tunes" 4/5 Independent
FIELD MUSIC - YOU CAN DECIDE - 11 JULY 2005
"Calming assure a smooth taster for the future". Flux
"An utterly pleasurable and rich listening experience" iDJ single of the month
"Bit sized chunks of melodic perfection..utterly brilliant" Music Week
ABSENTEE - DONKEY STOCK - 4 JULY 2005
"My Dead Wife is totally brill.....Absentee sound like God burping and imagine how fucking amazing that sounds" NME
DUNGEN - TA DET LUGNT - 6 JUNE 2005
"like being struck by indescribable melodic lightning" 9.3/10 Pitchforkmedia.com
"Dungen are comfortably the best band in the world" 8/10 NME
"Fan's Of Eno, Can, The Beatles & Zappa should get a buzz out of this weirdly brilliant album" Dazed
"Ta Det Lugnt offers a glimpse of what the Stone Roses were groping for with the second coming. Superb."4/5 Observer MM
"A classic of modern psychedelia" 4/5 Uncut
"A glorious mix of pyschedelic pop, off kilter folk and sinister proggy overtones". 4/5 Rip and Burn
"Its sung in Swedish but this doesn't stop this album being a classic". 4/5 The Independent
FIELD MUSIC - SHORTER SHORTER - 11 APRIL2005
...."Shorter, Shorter" glides through brief swathes of British pop grandeur like a pebble skipping over a calm, lambent lake, incorporating wobble-close harmonies, icicle keyboards, strings and jerky guitar beneath lyrics that sigh at human uncertainty, misdirected relationships, and the brevity of existence. Both super and furry... Pitchforkmedia.com Beautifully put, Pitchfork.