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The Week That Was is the new album by Field Music’s Peter Brewis.
For those that don’t know Sunderland based Field Music released two full albums, the eponymous 2005 debut and 2007’s Tones of Town, both of which became one of many peoples’ albums of the year. Perhaps willfully to some, Field Music, on the cusp of breaking through, decided, “to get off the band treadmill” concerned that being in a band in the traditional sense was restricting their creative output. The first fruits of this artistic freedom was David Brewis’ much lauded School of Language album Sea From Shore in Feb 08..the second is The Week That Was, Peter’s first solo foray.
The Week That Was, written and recorded in late 2007 at Field Music’s 8 Studio in Sunderland, emerged from an imagined crime thriller dreamt up by Peter and inspired by Paul Auster’s labyrinthine storytelling. Peter started writing the songs as if they were moments, instances of perspectives within this story. The story was left to fall away, leaving a puzzle of musical snapshots. The songs are the evidence in this particular mystery and the victims, perpetrators and onlookers raise questions with concerns familiar to us all. How do we deal with the fragments of information we receive through the television, radio, the internet? How do we balance the distrust we feel for mass media with our dependence on it? How does this relationship influence our hopes and actions in our real lives? And finally, what would happen if we decided not to deal with it anymore and switched off the information flow by throwing away our TVs, radios and newspapers? The anger, confusion and sorrow details the week of Peter’s own enforced switch off.
For those that don’t know Sunderland based Field Music released two full albums, the eponymous 2005 debut and 2007’s Tones of Town, both of which became one of many peoples’ albums of the year. Perhaps willfully to some, Field Music, on the cusp of breaking through, decided, “to get off the band treadmill” concerned that being in a band in the traditional sense was restricting their creative output. The first fruits of this artistic freedom was David Brewis’ much lauded School of Language album Sea From Shore in Feb 08..the second is The Week That Was, Peter’s first solo foray.
The Week That Was, written and recorded in late 2007 at Field Music’s 8 Studio in Sunderland, emerged from an imagined crime thriller dreamt up by Peter and inspired by Paul Auster’s labyrinthine storytelling. Peter started writing the songs as if they were moments, instances of perspectives within this story. The story was left to fall away, leaving a puzzle of musical snapshots. The songs are the evidence in this particular mystery and the victims, perpetrators and onlookers raise questions with concerns familiar to us all. How do we deal with the fragments of information we receive through the television, radio, the internet? How do we balance the distrust we feel for mass media with our dependence on it? How does this relationship influence our hopes and actions in our real lives? And finally, what would happen if we decided not to deal with it anymore and switched off the information flow by throwing away our TVs, radios and newspapers? The anger, confusion and sorrow details the week of Peter’s own enforced switch off.
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The Week That Was - The Good Life
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The Week That Was - The Airport Line
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The Week That Was - A Disclaimer 13/05/08
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The Week That Was - It's All Gone Quiet 13/05/08
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Learn To Learn
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The Good Life
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The Airport Line
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Scratch The Surface
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The Story Waits For No One
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It's All Gone Quiet
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Come Home
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Yesterday's Paper
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Shoutbox
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henri-Q wrote:
this is unique sound, very beautiful and enjoyable.
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revenger wrote:
you guys are on Rck.TV neat hehe.. pretty cheap video but it's good that way hehe :-)
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wernamhogg wrote:
One of the best albums of this year by a mile. The brewis brothers can do no wrong in my eyes. Everything they do is gold.
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gshizzy wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnR3U-2KNFg The sounds isn't great, and I don't understand phones so its sideways as well, but enjoy (or try to)
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polyEsther wrote:
i love this band.
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wjd1990 wrote:
one of my favourites this year... too bad it's so unknown band
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odg wrote:
this is incredible.
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pushpullpulk wrote:
me like this.
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Dan_ny wrote:
They are great! *.*
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patrickTM wrote:
God, I love this band.
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gshizzy wrote:
I saw them at an instore too. I recorded Scratch The Surface on my phone. As soon as I work out how to put the video on my computer (its a new phone) I'll stick it on youtube. The quality probably isn't great like.
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ded_handi wrote:
This album's an absolute masterpiece. Saw them do an instore which was more stripped down than the album (for obvious reasons) but that was amazing too. Wish it had been recorded...
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gshizzy wrote:
A good scary though. Like when you saw ghostbusters for the first time when you were a kid? It was a slightly scary, but really good. And it gets better each time.
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gshizzy wrote:
The album is so good its scary.
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vuckothewolf wrote:
does anywhere know where i can get my hands on a download of this?? it's impossible to buy albums in this effing country :-/
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GrayFlannelSuit wrote:
Very good album! For anyone who subscribes to eMusic, there's an extra track available for download ("A Waltz in the Park").
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Silke_Neryn wrote:
One of this year's absolute best.
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WhiteTapes wrote:
(German) Review to "The Week That Was" @ WhiteTapes.de - the indie zine: http://whitetapes.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/the-week-that-was-the-week-that-was-st/
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theNomadz wrote:
its all about 'Its All Gone Quiet' for me, can't wait to see Week That Was and School of Language together next week
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for the german folks, we have the release date of the album on our site ;) www.whitetapes.de no really, it's not a joke or only promotion, well, a bit promotion, but still, we have the date XD
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