Swedish minimal techno crossover Axel Willner, aka The Field, is returning with his second proper full-length, the six-song Beatles nodding Yesterday & Today. While that title’s not as beautifully dramatic as From Here We Go Sublime, it does include a collaboration with Battles drummer John Stanier on the title track, so there’s that. There’s also be plenty of beauty to be found elsewhere. Like on lead epic, “The More That I Do,” which has that familiar driving, crystalline sound: Clipped vocal loops and sharp percussion float through a shimmering, pulsing, densely-layered backdrop until it thins out toward the spare steel-drum finale. Take a listen while you look at the more clearly minimalist Yesterday album art.
(via P4K)
Yesterday And Today will be released in the US via Anti- and in Europe via Kompakt on 5/25.
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Incredible.
agreed. this record is going to be fantastic.
first time i’ve ever gasped at my google reader! so happy about the new record, this track rules
Man, this is awesome.
Is the vocal/guitar sample that starts right at the top come from Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? I dunno about everyone else, but I love trying (and failing) at figuring out where his samples come from.
sounds like cocteau twins to me.
Definitely meant Y Control… shame on ME.
I love the Field, but the latter portion of this track (which I think is bits of Cocteau Twins’ Lorelei, unless I’m wrong) has no emotional pull to it, which is disappointing because it goes on and on and on.
It is the Cocteau Twins – Lorelei for sure…which makes me want to listen to them instead…but good Field track none the less…
it is impossible to not nod ur head to this
it does sound like Lorelei – mmmmmmmmmmajestic!
this makes me very very happy. are people still calling this Trance? hehe
One of my most anticipated albums of the year
I can has more now?
Am I the only person who does not get this band at all? I mean, it’s boring; right? What am I missing???
I, and others, find the repetition (which is probably what you find boring) and slow, subtle changes hypnotic and the melodic textures ethereal.
Maybe try listening to it as you would observe a colorfield or abstract expressionist painting.
Or how about like one of those posters that produces an image if you stare at it the right way? Never could get those to work…
I dig the Field’s textures but the clipped looping gimmick is just too irritating for me to handle. Even though Gui Boratto’s most recent effort isn’t that great, I’d take it over this stuff.
YES. I need this album, like right now.
i like the Lorelei sample, but he could’ve used it to better effect
I have this album, been listening to it for about 2 weeks now… I still love F.H.W.G.S.; this requires much more patience.. a little like the lengthy tracks on the S.O.L. EP.