David Brewis -The Soft Struggles -DAYLIGHT SAVING / INDIGO CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. "Can We Put it in the Diary?"
02. "Surface Noise"
03. "Tomorrow"
04. "When You First Meet"
05. "It Takes a Long Time"
06. "Start Over"
07. "Keeping Up With Jessica"
08. "High Time"
09. "The Last Day"
10. "The King of Growing Up"

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David Brewis of the band Field Music releases his debut solo record The Soft Struggles on 24 February 2023. After three albums as School of Language, David Brewisâ??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 Musicâ??s newly formed Daylight Saving Records label, intended as the home for the Brewis brothersâ?? extra-curricular projects. The Soft Struggles veers away from Field Musicâ??s eclectic palette and instead leans into the luminous spontaneity of Van Morrisonâ??s Astral Weeks and the breathy, string-laden chamber pop of Colin Blunstoneâ??s One Year. Several of the tracks were built around a single day of live recording at Field Musicâ??s studio in Sunderland, with Davidâ??s brother Peter on drums, Sarah Hayes (Admiral Fallow, You Tell Me) on piano and flute and Faye MacCalman (Archipelago) on clarinet and saxophone. â??Thereâ??s something a bit magical about a bunch of musicians together in a room being thrown in at the deep end,â? says David, â??So many of my favourite records were made quickly by musicians sitting a few feet from each other, playing songs theyâ??d never even heard before the session began. Thatâ??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.â? 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 isnâ??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. -

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05242512

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