More than 40 acts playing across three Edinburgh venues in one day, that the promise from the first edition of The Great Eastern, a brand new festival of musical exploration and discovery.
More than 40 acts playing across three Edinburgh venues in one day, that the promise from the first edition of The Great Eastern, a brand new festival of musical exploration and discovery.
Flat White Moon
Zara Hedderman
, May 19th, 2021 09:07
Sunderland s talented Brewis brothers are back with an album so good that its best bits remind Zara Hedderman of Bowie s songs for Labyrinth
“It might be a waste to wait around for certainty / When you could get better / If you take a step / In just one direction,” sing the brothers Brewis on ‘You Get Better’, the closing track of their eighth record,
Flat White Moon. A jaunty late-era Talking Heads fused arrangement brims with melodic personality and affirmations typically found on desk calendars decorated with illustrations of kittens clawing onto a branch. This proposition from the duo unconsciously presents an accurate analogy of Field Music’s most recent output. Here, the unexpected twists and turns scattered across their otherwise familiar soundscapes proffer the most intriguing aspects of the work.
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Electra Heart, in 2012.
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