View basket “Ceremony: An Electronic Mass” has been added to your basket. The Soft Struggles David Brewis SKU: ADD1-005LP Barcode: 5056340105191 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Daylight Saving Records Released Date: 24th February 2023 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info David Brewis, of the band Field Music, releases his debut solo record, ‘The Soft Struggles’. After three albums as School of Language, David Brewis’s next contribution to the ever-expanding Field Music universe is this jazz- inflected acoustic record. It will also be the second album release on Field Music’s newly formed Daylight Saving Records label, intended as the home for the Brewis brothers’ extra-curricular projects. ‘The Soft Struggles’ veers away from Field Music’s eclectic palette and instead leans into the luminous spontaneity of Van Morrison’s ‘Astral Weeks’ and the breathy, string-laden chamber pop of Colin Blunstone’s ‘One Year’. Several of the tracks were built around a single day of live recording at Field Music’s studio in Sunderland, with David’s brother Peter on drums, Sarah Hayes (Admiral Fallow, You Tell Me) on piano and flute and Faye MacCalman (Archipelago) on clarinet and saxophone. “There’s something a bit magical about a bunch of musicians together in a room being thrown in at the deep end,” says David, “So many of my favourite records were made quickly by musicians sitting a few feet from each other, playing songs they’d never even heard before the session began. That’s what I tried to do with this album. A chord sheet, a set of lyrics, a brief chat about tempo and then, okay comrades, see you at the other side.” The soft struggles of the songs themselves touch on weariness and loss, disappointments allayed or accepted, anxieties overcome or temporarily elbowed aside, sometimes grasping for romantic, or parental, wisdom, and when wisdom isn’t quite in reach, there are songs of consolation and wry hopefulness. The album also features contributions from singer Eve Cole, trombones by David Smith and Craig Hissett, saxophones on ‘The Last Day’ by Pete Fraser, and strings courtesy of regular Field Music collaborators Ed Cross, Jo Montgomery, Chrissie Slater and Ele Leckie. Artist David Brewis Genre Leftfield / Experimental Label Daylight Saving Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Can We Put it in the Diary? 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