Info
- Artist:: The Field Mice
- Album:: Skywriting + Singles
- Year:: 2005
- Label:: LTM
- Catalog:: LTMCD 2421
Track Ratings
| # | Title | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Skywriting | ||
| 1.1 | Triangle | |
| 1.2 | Canada | ★ |
| 1.3 | Clearer | |
| 1.4 | It Isn’t Forever | |
| 1.5 | Below the Stars | ★ |
| 1.6 | Humblebee | |
| So Said Kay | ||
| 1.7 | Landmark | ★ |
| 1.8 | Quicksilver | ★ |
| 1.9 | Holland Street | |
| 1.10 | Indian Ocean | ★★★ |
| 1.11 | So Said Kay | ★ |
| The Autumn Store Part 1 | ||
| 2.1 | If You Need Someone | ★ |
| 2.2 | The World to Me | ★ |
| The Autumn Store Part 2 | ||
| 2.3 | Song Six | |
| 2.4 | Anyone Else Isn’t You | |
| 2.5 | Bleak | |
| Singles | ||
| 2.6 | I Thought Wrong | ★ |
| 2.7 | Right as Rain | |
| 2.8 | A Heart Disease Called Love | ★ |
| 2.9 | This Is Not Here (1998) | ★ |
| 2.10 | Other Galaxies |
Log
2021-09-22
honestly i’m here because i listened to indian ocean, wished it was more, then decided to listen to it again and started choking up halfway through. that time it was enough.
Skywriting
★ canada is cute
these synths definitely date everything to a specific era and a specific scene.
it also reminds me of like two other bands i’d rather listen to (The Blue Nile, The Clean, early OMD, i really should revisit the clean actually).
★ below the stars. it is its components.
(though oh no that weird note in the bass during the transition back to the initial phrase)
humblebee: why.
so like. i’m grateful that bandcamp can act as a quarantine for bands like these today.
but at the same time, it’s stuff like this which makes me wonder if the threshold to getting on a label really was lower in those days (for varying definitions of “label”).
So Said Kay confessional quote
★ landmark. it’s comforting.
★ quicksilver, because it’s also comforting
holland street is nice for what it is
★★★ indian ocean. she deserves to have someone who loves her fully, wholeheartedly. i know that’s what she wants too, and it breaks my heart to see her come so close to it so many times. but i can’t be that person for her, though i wish i could be, because she deserves to have someone who loves her fully, wholeheartedly.
★ so said kay
this might be the highlight, at least so far.
The Autumn Store Part 1
★ if you need someone
★ the world to me. these horns are a bit intense but i really like this chorus.
The Autumn Store Part 2
song six:
They make me so ashamed
Ashamed of being male
Ashamed of my gender
They make me ashamed of my gender
is this dysphoria?
Singles
★ i thought wrong
★ a heart disease called love. this is so lonely…
★ this is not here, though it starts to get same-y by the end