Déjà vu is when someone is telling an old story with new lies to an observant audience. It is also when there is a glitch. And, it is when you hear Studio for the first time after falling in love with The Field a year before.
The Studio track, inappropriately entitled "Life’s a Beach!", comes off their 2007 release, Yearbook 1 (a collection of earlier work). It’s clean, light, sunny and unmistakably dubby. Lilting notes and psychedelic tinkles wave over tribal beats and cool, groovy bass. The song’s easy rhythm and theme are exploited by ever changing melodies which slide through like rays.This is heady, heavy, exotic music – at midday on white sand with a Mr Price beach towel and plenty of sunscreen.
The point is, it ebbs and it lulls.
Studio - Life's A Beach (MediaFire)
The point of The Field is exactly the same.
This track off their new album, Yesterday and Today, is titled "I Have the Moon, You Have the Internet" - already indicative of the subtle shifts from 2007's From Here We Go Sublime. Yesterday and Today is far more crude - far more human - than the divine, soaring beauty of previous tracks like "A Paw in My Face". In "I Have the Moon, You Have the Internet", the rushing, dissonant ebb is still there, driving the track steadily. However, a coarser, crisper tone makes the whole, and its individual parts, tangible and brittle. The result is a less soothing aural experience, where the finesse of those comforting tones are translated from God back into human (like with Alanis Morissette and the Metatron and Bartleby's exploding head). Abrasive infinity builds to a gradual climax: where climax is dissipation. The track ends with 20 seconds of steel drums... Steel drums of magical jungle nymphs, beat like harps to drown lost sailors, and polar bears.
Again, the point is, it ebbs. And, it lulls.
Whether you trust that sleepy tide or not is entirely irrelevant. Probably.
The Field - I Have The Moon, You Have The Internet (MediaFire)
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