The Field, "From Here We Go To Sublime"

Touted by many as Kompakt's answer to the relative crossover success enjoyed by the likes of James Holden and Trentemoller [...] Willner taps into the same tempered-euphoria that made Ulrich Schnauss so popular

Comments section of the Field review is interesting. It kind of lays out the challenge for writers, in trying to describe why this album is good. Convince the people with the red numbers next to their comments, tell them what is special about this album and why they should care. It ain't easy!

Maybe I just don't understand it but in my opinion it should defiantly not be #1 let alone the top 10

i feel like this is probably the general feeling of 95% of metacritic's general readership.

iTunes (UK) has the "sound of light" EP for 79p a track right now (they've got it as a "partial album" -- don't think they realise what it is). that's an hour of music for £3.16, which strikes me as the kind of thing they'll bump upwards as soon as they realise.

just saying, like. just saying.

one of those albums i bought, liked the first track a hell of a lot, couldn't get into the rest. have just put it on again, skipping first track and am enjoying a paw in my face a hell of a lot. think this dude should make an album without beats.

i bought "sound of light" on itunes(us) for $3.95 yesterday. "morning" and "night" are super super nice.

"morning" is awesome; wasn't so sure about "night", actually. like "day" a lot, too.

iTunes just freaked out playing Chris Brown and it sounded exactly like this album!

haha that sounds incredible

this album is like the end of a.i., but more fun

So upon hearing some of his remix work done after 'from here we go sublime' I couldnt help but notice how homogenic and limited his sound palette is. Rumours has it that he'll be making a comeback this year. Is The Field a one-trick pony about to encounter the inevitable backlash? Or will he be able to hold up to the amount of sheer excitement provoked by this album?

I still rock this occasionally (good record to fall asleep to, oddly enough, and I mean that in a positive way), but I don't think I'd have much tolerance for more of the same.

do people still listen to this album? because in my ears this is the type of album that wow-ed you at first listen only to get tiring quickly.

Really? For me, the first time I heard it, it bored me. On repeat listens, I was caught by the subtleties.

The Reverend OTM -- this is exactly the kind of record that gets better with repeat listens. Same goes for the Gas records, the Kompakt kompilations, that last Gui Boratto one... basically, anything on Kompakt that holds water is better over time.

Still play this all the time.

this is really starting to grow on me, like what...2 years later? 3 years?

great record

that being said, being an indie kid, this is the only minimal techno record I've ever heard

best use of a lionel richie sample ever?

only use of a lionel richie sample ever?

it's definitely the best use of a lionel richie sample in minimal techo

uh, this is the only minimal techno record you've heard, remember?

unless you've heard many more minimal techno records in the one-hour between those two posts.

eminem told me nobody listens to techno, so i feel like listening to this one record has given me the authority to say whatever i want about the genre since theres nobody else around who even listens to it, thus arguably making my thoughts slightly more valuable than silence

actually, his comments were addressed to moby, but lets not get pedantic

Maybe you could try Efdemin, Pantha Du Prince or Michael Mayer's Immer

thanks! i really should. i know pretty much nothing about electronic music, as ive said before, but i thought this record was fantastic. i think i bought whatever pantha record came out in 2007 but didnt listen to it much. anyway, thanks -- i def need to investigate the genre more

"electronic" covers a lot of ground. it includes four-tet, i guess. his lastest is a fantastic, pulsating disc.

i've got the follow-up from the field. the songs are so long tho (iirc), and less memorable.

yeah, i know nothing about the various dance/electronic subgenres

i liked the first field record & most of the burial songs ive heard but thats about all that i can think of unless you count, like, thom yorkes solo record and thats really really pushing it

pretty sure i bought the second field record, not sure how much of it i listened to, but i didnt really give it much of a chance

was going to suggest burial's untrue, actually. my favorite disc of last decade, still.

favorite record of the 2000s? wow. that's high praise. not sure if i ever made it through all of untrue, but i loved archangel. listened to all of his first record, though, im pretty sure

the last song on the second field record is the best thing he has ever done or will do

Aye, Sequenced knocks everything on ...Sublime into a cocked hat.

Still don't get Burial.

I was into IDM in college (Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, etc.) but hadn't really heard much electronic music beyond that until a few years ago.

If I were to recommend one electronic album from the past decade (and I guess I'm not including stuff like Junior Boys, which leans pop), it would be Luomo's The Present Lover. Although I think Isolee's We Are Monster makes a pretty good primer for someone who doesn't listen to a lot of electronic music, just because it's so varied sonically.

would be interested in checking out both of those records!

fwiw, i love the second junior boys record, think the latest one was whatever, and have been told by a least one ilxor that i need to get a copy of last exit asap

so this is goodbye really is just such a solid record. haven't listened to the whole thing in forever but i really should soon

I was really into Orbital, Chemical Brothers, Aphex Twin, etc when I was 17. In Sides & Snivilisation by Orbital remain all-time favourites. Big fan of Four Tet, Caribou, Pantha Du Prince etc these days. Like but not blown away by Luomo. Never heard We Are Monster; I guess I should.

Isolee's We Are Monster is fantastic (one particularly standout song, whose name escapes me atm).

I'd say replace The Present Lover with Vocalcity, make it your life's goal to hear We Are Monster, and you'll be just fine.

In Sides & Snivilisation by Orbital remain all-time favourites

In Sides is top 10 for me. I actually started following your writing on Stylus after that article where you talk about the In Sides poster you've lugged around for years.

That album got love when it came out, but I think it gets overlooked now.

can't find a general thread for him just ones for each album

but new song & album alert!

https://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/the-field-sets-us-sailing-through-the-spectral-who-goes-there-153

I guess at some point we stopped starting new threads for new albums by The Field, but on a whim I played Infinite Moment this morning and really enjoyed it. The whole second half is wonderful, but then I always prefer the more subtle-and-understated Field tracks to the anthems.

Is it just me or was this album kinda slept on relative to the previous ones? I don't recall hearing a lot about it at the time.

Also crazy that this was released nearly six years ago! I still think of it as the "new" one.

Haven't thought about The Field for awhile but it's good work techno (which is very distinct from business techno, lol). I remember having an early revelation about the power of a very (deceptively) simple loop listening to his first record.

Heard one of their tracks out last night, from the second album I think. Sounded great. I'm a sucker for a kind of tasteful urgency.

I still listen to the first album all the time. I like all of them to various degrees, but this one has always seemed special, and it still sounds really good to me.

still sounds wonderful

I wonder why "Istedgade" was left off the album. Maybe to get people to buy the Sun & Ice EP.

Oh it’s here.