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Track Listings
| 1. Rockist Part 1 |
| 2. Rockist Part 2 |
| 3. Disappointment '99 |
| 4. Poor Boy |
| 5. Keep Your Water |
| 6. Marine Life |
| 7. Ships |
| 8. This Is No Fun |
| 9. Extended Holiday |
| 10. Rockist Part 3 (Aposiopesis) |
| 11. Rockist Part 4 |
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Bristling with ELP-sampled syths, thumping fusillades of reversed drumming, shoals of dreamy piano and lots of tricksy George Harrison sliding past Steve Howe-style guitar, what might sound like a worst-nightmare mess on paper, in practice is a kaleidoscopic tour-de-force. Although it's informed and influenced by the past, Brewis proves to be no slave to retro fashions. Rather, he's a passionate advocate of following impulsive threads and creative decisions no matter where they lead, no matter how obscure the course or outcome.
The shimmering elegance of Keep Your Water is reason enough to fall in love with this album but there are plenty of other moments to send the shivers racing down your spine. The block-tackle slam of Rockist (part 1 - 4 no less, all you prog-pop pickers!) has the assorted density of Bill Nelson's solo rock albums but never forgets how to connect at a visceral level; Disappointment 99 for example has the heart of Robert Palmer but the head and feet of a belligerently rowdy King Crimson.
This caustic, genuinely experimental appetite present throughout Sea From Shore demonstrates the very rigour that's missing in vast chunks of the Indie rock scene to which Brewis nominally belongs. Fluent and impressive, you have to wonder why more music produced these days can't be as joined-up, challenging and as informative as this. --Sid Smith
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Customer Reviews
The answer is yes. Whilst not as easy on first listen (there is so much going on here) these songs have a habit of getting under your skin and staying there.
Highlights - Poor Boy, with its shimmying bass line and metalic guitar parts and Rockist Part 4 with its glorious end section.
Basically if you're fan of Field Music (and if not, why not?) you can feel safe buying this in the knowledge that you're getting one of the records of the year from one of the UK's finest talents
I was listening away and I thought " hang on, this has a Field Music sound to it " (I absolutely love Field Music). On further investigation and I was please to see that it was indeed the Brewis brothers that were the perpetrators of this fine album.
If you like Field Music then this album should be part of your collection.
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