Field Music

HOW "GESTURAL THINKING" HAS HELPED PETER BREWIS TRANSCEND INFLUENCES AND FIND HIS OWN UNIQUE LANGUAGE

- Bill DeMain

AT AN IN-STORE performance at Monorail Records in Glasgow, Peter Brewis is bending his fretting hand into some origami-like shapes. Minor second clusters bloom into open-ended 11th chords, flying out from his red Strat with chiming bravado. Field Music, the Sunderland, England-based band he fronts with his brother David, are here celebrating their ninth album, Limits of Language. Led by ear-worm tracks "Six Weeks, Nine Wells" and "Guardian of Sleep," it features their singular brand of what they've called "collage rock" — imagine Eighties King Crimson making