Field Music Announce New Album ‘Flat White Moon’

Field Music, brothers Peter and David Brewis, are all set to release their new 12 track studio album ‘Flat White Moon’ on 23 April 2021. Today they share lead single ‘No Pressure’, following on from pervious single ‘Orion From the Street’. To accompany ‘No Pressure’ the brothers have created an instructional video on how to make a Field Music song.

No Pressure - YouTube

"We want to make people feel good about things that we feel terrible about." says David, who has co-led the band Field Music with his brother Peter since 2004. It's a statement which seems particularly fitting to their latest album, Flat White Moon.

Much of the record deals with personal loss and grief, and also the guilt and isolation which comes with that. And so Field Music have taken on the challenge of representing negative emotions in a way that doesn't dilute or obscure them but which can still be uplifting. "We've always tried to write what's uppermost in our minds. With Making A New World [last year’s concept album about the aftermath of the First World War] we could sidestep our own lives to a degree. We could immerse ourselves in other people's stories until we were ready to face the other stuff." Flat White Moon is full of “the other stuff”.

But like so many plans made in the past year, Flat White Moon started out as one thing and evolved into another. After the complexities of touring 2018's Open Here, which required a bigger live band to cover the expansive arrangements, and then Making A New World, which was performed as one continuous piece with a synchronised visual accompaniment, Field Music's newest album began with the desire to play and to have fun. "We say it all the time: You make music with your ears and your brain first. But I trust my ears and my brain, so let's make something which just feels good and feels physical," reveals Peter.