The Field - Yesterday And Today
The Field - Yesterday and Today
[Kompakt, 2009]
In 2007, Axel Willner proved with is debut From Here We Go Sublime that the time of monotonous techno loops is not over, and it shouldn’t necessarily be all boring. Then, on the album, in rounded rhythms you could catch samples of Lionel Ritchie, Kate Bush and Coldplay - the rest was a matter of rhythm. That’s the way the story goes with the Field on Yesterday and Today, only without sampling. A 6-track album has an hour length. The opener, I Have The Moon, You Have The Internet brings you into the album’s pulsation, then comes Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime, a cover for a British pop band Korgis - a piece floating in the air, with a subtle rhythm and a coda of bells. Leave It is a total 11-minute dance shamanism, followed by a title track, Yesterday and Today, a funneled and moving one, changing direction by the end. Each track is a new rhythm, a new element of a soundscape. The More That I Do, released as a single, is techno’s quicksands, drawing your in the more you move. And the final one, a 15-minute Sequenced, with the bass line tightened around the main rhythm.
Tenacious and fine techno, Willner called the album more “organic” than its predecessor. Not sure about “green” type of organic, but it definitely has a pulsating life inside.
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