Field Music – Limits Of Language LP (Red Vinyl) For Sale

On October 11th, Field Music will release Limits of Language, their first album of new music for almost four years. Following a period where brothers David and Peter Brewis took some time to focus on solo projects (2023 saw the release of David s Soft Struggles and Peter s Blowdry Colossus) this album see s them combine new instrumental pallettes discovered during their solo works with classic Field Music songwriting.
Whilst Peter amassed the instrumental compositions which become Blowdry Colossus, he was also tinkering with a batch of songs which would form the basis of Limits of Language, songs which mixed synthesised textures with off-the-cuff flickers of guitar and layers of disorientating found-sound percussion. These fleshed-out demos included The Waitress of St Louis’, an ode to the now-closed Sunderland café ’Louis’, which featured on the cover of their 2007 album Tones of Town, and to the Maggiore family who ran this cherished institution.
David’s songs came from a different angle but leant into the same sonic palette and shared the same sense of a past becoming granulated. Album opener, Six Weeks, Nine Wells pits the hazy ecstasies of school summer holidays against the fear and foreboding of a child peeking through into an adult world.
Limits of Language sees Field Music continue with their astonishing, bloody-minded run of releases. A run which equates to an impressive twenty-one Field Music Productions in nineteen years as a band.