These New Puritans - Field of Reeds [2LP]

Format: 2 LP Black Vinyl includes etching on side 4  
ICPN: 4050538944044
Release Date: 10 Nov 2023
Genre: Indie/Alternative

‘Field of Reeds’ is a dark, honest and experimental orchestral work that reflects the band’s love of Bach, Britten and Stephen Sondheim. It marks a sonic deviation for the band and represents another uncompromising shift from a band without peer. Arranged with conductor André de Ridder, ‘Field of Reeds’ also features basso profundo Adrian Peacock, renowned British jazz trumpeter Henry Lowther, Dutch contemporary composer Michel van der Aa, Swedish soundtrack arranger Hans Ek and Portuguese jazz singer Elisa Rodrigues. Celebrating it’s 10th anniversary, this edition includes an etched side on double black vinyl.

10th anniversary vinyl reissue (black with etching on disc 2 / side 2) of ‘Field of Reeds’, the third studio album by British art rock band These New Puritans. Produced by Jack Barnett and Graham Sutton, the album features prominent contributions from over thirty-eight session musicians, including jazz singer Elisa Rodrigues, and finds the band "reinventing themselves as a neoclassical ensemble." The album is the band's first without keyboardist Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, who departed from the band in 2012.
‘Field of Reeds’ originally reached #90 on the UK Albums Chart. Universally acclaimed, in 2016, Fact placed Field of Reeds at #26 on its list of the best post-rock albums of all time, describing the album as "one of only a few records that could claim to be a successor of Talk Talk's majestic strand of post-rock".

Tracklist:
Disc 1 / Side 1:
1. This Guy's In Love with You
2. Fragment Two
3. The Light in Your Name

Disc 1 / Side 2:
1. V (Island Song)
2. Spiral
3. Organ Eternal

Disc 2 / Side 1:
1. Nothing Else
2. Dream
3. Field of Reeds
Disc 2 / Side 2 (Etched)