Credits:

David Brewis

Description:

Field Music member David Breuys completes his debut solo album. The Soft Struggles, an album that leans toward chamber pop with jazz elements and lots of strings, is released on Field Music's Daylight Savings Records label. Field Music's David Brewis will release his debut solo album, The Soft Struggles, on February 24, 2023. will release his debut solo album, The Soft Struggles, on February 24, 2023.Released after three albums as School of Language, The Soft Struggles is a jazz-infused acoustic work on Field Music's newly established label, It is the second album on Field Music's new label, Daylight Saving Records. The Soft Struggles is a departure from Field Music's eclectic palette, leaning toward string-heavy chamber-pop in the vein of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks and Colin Blunstone's One Year One Year. One Year One Year.Some of the songs were recorded live in one day at Field Music's studio in Sunderland with David's brother Peter on drums, Sarah Hayes (Admiral Fallow, You Tell Me) on piano and flute, and Faye MacCalman (Archipelago) Faye MacCalman (Archipelago) played clarinet and saxophone and was recorded live in one day. Also featured were singer Eve Cole, David Smith and Craig Hissett on trombone, and Pete Fraser on saxophone, with Field Music regulars Ed Cross, Jo Montgomery, Chrissie Slater, and Ele Leckie Ed Cross, Jo Montgomery, Chrissie Slater, and Elle Leckie provided the strings.

Tracklisting:

1.Can We Put it in the Diary?
2.Surface Noise
3.Tomorrow
4.When You First Meet
5.It Takes a Long Time
6.Start Over
7.Keeping Up With Jessica
8.High Time
9.The Last Day
10.The King of Growing Up