DAVID BREWIS

The Soft Struggles DAYLIGHT SAVING RECORDS

JMC

Field Music founder revels in baroque majesty on delightful solo album. Best known for leading Sunderland art-rockers Field Music with brother Peter, David Brewis has also carved out an intriguing career with side-project School Of Language across three albums. With such a prodigious output behind him, it comes as something of a surprise that The Soft Struggles is his first fully fledged solo album. What also raises eyebrows is the current direction taken by Brewis. While his side-project has found him moving in the area of mutant funk with music that twists this way and that, it’s here that he’s found his sweet spot. Eschewing hard rhythms, he’s accompanied by Sarah Hayes (piano and flute) and Faye MacCalman (saxophone and clarinet) as well as the string quartet of Ed Cross,…

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