“Field Music’s 2012 album ‘Plumb’ was at the more unusual end of that year’s Mercury nods. In response to their nomination, Sunderland brothers Peter and David Brewis thought it might be “unfair” if their wriggly art-rock won: “The music industry would be right royally pissed off if somebody who has sold half as many copies as some of the others ended up winning,” said Peter, three weeks before Alt”
“Alternately slick and herky-jerky in its delivery, Field Music's sixth full-length plays like post-punk Steely Dan—jazzy, elegant, and ultimately satisfying, but not always in the ways you expect or necessarily want.”
