There are a lot of adjectives to describe the kind of music made by Fields: lush, epic, grandiose, ethereal, to name but a few. As if to live up to its mission statement of a title (it should by all rights be called ‘You’re Not The Only One’), this re-released single from debut album ‘Everything Last Winter’ encapsulates all of them.
The lilting acoustic introduction is pleasant enough, but when the song really kicks in with driving guitars, soaring harmonies and pounding drums it is truly impressive. It eventually builds to a euphoric, psychedelic peak with a wall of sound behind the gorgeous boy/girl vocals. For a time the song settles on a piercing repetition of “You’re not the only one” that sounds like your Guns’n’Roses ‘Use Your Illusion I’ CD is skipping, stuck on that line in ‘November Rain’, before falling away and then rising again for a final climax.
You could compare ‘Song For The Fields’ to any number of shoegazers, from My Bloody Valentine to Ride, while in parts there are also elements of Explosions In The Sky’s post rock, Arcade Fire’s chamber pop harmonies or South’s beat-laden euphoria. These stimuli and more swirl around in Fields’ expansive galaxy to create a single well worth its re-release. B-side ‘Nine Stones’ is more delicate and is reminiscent of much of ‘Everything Last Winter’, but is another moment of quality from this band.
When it first came out some 15 months ago, ‘Song for The Fields’ was a startling debut single that promised much. Its re-release now serves as a timely reminder of what remains Fields’ finest moment so far.
First published on rockfeedback.com. See it here.
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