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Field Music: Measure

John Calvert, The Quietus, 19 February 2010

THE BROTHERS BREWIS are natural Situationists, far too clever to take life overly seriously. This is no doubt what made Field Music's first two albums such quirky vignettes for equally smart boys to read Beckett too. This puts them about ten smarty-pants notches higher up the Gartside scale of deconstructionist discourse, than any other Brit post-punk revivalists since 2001.

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