Song Analysis: Field Music – Let’s Write A Book
Field Music are a musician’s band. Their music is so immaculately crafted and arranged that it makes other so-called ‘musicians’ pale in comparison. None is this more evident than on the Sunderland four-piece’s most recent album – a double album in fact – Field Music (Measure). Over the course of about an hour or so the listener is treated to a wide variety of musical styles and tempos and moods that have built with tender loving care. They showcased this craftsmanship at the Queen Elizabeth Hall the other day at Richard Thompson’s Meltdown.
Perhaps one of the finest moments is the rather brilliant Let’s Write A Book. It’s Field Music at their most disco – a funk-tastic bassline bubbles along with a rhythmic groove backing it up. By the end, it’s a strangely hypnotic and compelling piece of music that satisfies and surprises. Around a minute into the song you hear the sounds of random marimba – like it was being hit with as a toy by a monkey – that somehow don’t feel out of place in the grand scheme of things whilst a more conventional synth hovers over the groove to great effect. It’s both clever and danceable, and that’s why it’s so good.
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Posted on June 17th, 2010 by Max
Filed under: Song Analysis, Tracks
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