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10.0
101801
10.0 |
Record Collector
Is it too early to call 2018’s album of the year?
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9.0
101805
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
It is clear that Field Music are a truly special band, although it seems a lost cause to expect that they become the full-on household names they deserve to be
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9.0
101853
9.0 |
All Music
It stands with their best work - some songs would no doubt end up on a greatest-hits collection - and in that regard is some of the best pop music anyone could hope to hear in 2018 or any time after
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8.7
101987
8.7 |
Gig Soup
Quietly, carefully and with the utmost precision, they’re subverting pop music right under our noses. And it’s great
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8.5
102009
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It is characteristic of the Brewis’ distinct methods that Open Here can feel so cumulative yet still reinventive
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8.0
101861
8.0 |
Evening Standard
There are usually more melodic ideas (and grooves and tempos and genres) in a single Field Music song than you’ll find on most albums
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8.0
101876
8.0 |
No Ripcord
With Open Here, Field Music sound like they’re not only investing in their stability but in their future as well
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8.0
101809
8.0 |
The Quietus
In the years to come we might turn to Plumb or Measure before Open Here to remind ourselves of the essential Field Music, yet this, their seventh record, is nevertheless a thing of immense songwriting charm and ideological strength
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8.0
101817
8.0 |
The Guardian
Grand masterclass in terrific tune-making
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8.0
101802
8.0 |
Q
Mature but reliably brilliant. Print edition only
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8.0
101803
8.0 |
Mojo
Field Music's most ambitious album yet. ... A consummate success. Print edition only
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8.0
101804
8.0 |
Uncut
Open Here is another prog-pop masterclass from a band reflecting our times while remaining stubbornly out of step with them. Print edition only
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8.0
101797
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Charming, clanking art pop with cheese on top
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8.0
101798
8.0 |
Exclaim
Field Music have created a truly immersive record with Open Here, one that is welcoming, conversational and oh-so-necessary for a world experiencing daily fear and paranoia
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8.0
101799
8.0 |
Clash
A defiant and impassioned statement in which Field Music prove they have mastered the art of addressing the political and the personal simultaneously
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8.0
101800
8.0 |
The Skinny
Another gleaming jewel to their increasingly impressive canon
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7.5
101849
7.5 |
Under The Radar
On Open Here, the brothers only continue to push outwards as they reckon with both their personal experiences of fatherhood and the state of society in their funk-led tunes
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7.2
101808
7.2 |
Pitchfork
Field Music rises to the challenge with a set of newly crystallized talking points, offered up along with a glorious mess of noise
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7.0
101796
7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
There is enough joy and beauty here to chalk this album up as another success for the forever understated Brewis brothers
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6.0
101818
6.0 |
The Independent
May be their most baroque yet
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6.0
101814
6.0 |
DIY
A deeply astute pop album that’s also often brimming with fun
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6.0
101990
6.0 |
NME
Enjoyably disjointed and oblique seventh album from the Sunderland band
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