My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Peter Brewis of England’s Field Music.
Brewis leads the art-rock band with his brother, David Brewis. Field Music formed in 2004 in the Northern England city of Sunderland. The band’s new album, Flat White Moon, is their eighth and, like all their other albums, is being released by the UK label Memphis Industries. In a press release announcing the album, Peter said he was inspired by Beck’s Odelay and De La Soul’s Three Feet High and when making . “I love how they use samples on those albums, taking parts that are obviously played—that are gestural—and then reconstruct them.”
