Name: Open Here
Brand: Field Music

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-MI-0476LE

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clear

Colour details

Transparent Vinyl

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Indie exclusive

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-02-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060146097833

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LP-MI-0476

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Extended format: No

5060146097826

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Artist

Field Music

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Memphis Industries

Albums of the Year 2018

Crafted in his new studio located in Berlin's timeless Funkhaus complex, All Melody is the result of two years of work infront and behind the mixing desk.

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/all-melody">Rough Trade Exclusive Version. One-time pressing Double LP plus exclusive bonus LP, download &amp; CD.</a>

This is the seventh studio album from acclaimed German composer and musician Nils Frahm and was recorded in Berlin. Before he recorded it he spent two years building his entire studio from the woodwork to the electrical cabling before he even got to the mixing desk and instruments.

His new album is born out of the freedom that his new environment provided, allowing Nils to explore without any restrictions. To call the album atmospheric would be underserving. Haunting choral voices surge over floods of organ notes. At times ever so slightly tropical rhythms sneak in, this combination is soothing and calming and at the same time otherworldly. All Melody is proof that music is limitless and timeless, and reflects Nils' own artistic progression - from a boy’s dream to resetting the parameters of music itself.

AOTM 2018

At the tail end of the 90’s, against all the advice of older, wiser heads, brothers Ollie and Matt Jacob started the label Memphis Industries. As is often the case, the label was initially intended as a vehicle to release some pals EPs, with no further plans beyond that. Their first signing Blue States delivered the album Nothing Changes Under the Sun, a surprise success for the label, they then rode the original chill wave, before finding that those older wiser heads were pretty spot on about starting a label, and washed up with <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/the-go-team-23286fc4-a92f-4609-a8e7-8a5b8bc7d563">The Go! Team</a> as “definitely their last ever signing before they got proper jobs”. A Mercury Prize nomination, a bucket load of sales and international acclaim later, Memphis went from strength to strength. 2018 sees the label as the home of North-East legends <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/field-music">Field Music</a>, Minneapolis’ future R&amp;B superstars <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/polica">POLICA</a>, the wonderful Wonk-Pop of Dutch Uncles and many more.

Rough Trade's Emily Waller sat down with Ollie to talk about the history of the label, avoiding a “proper job” and his favourite projects so far:

To celebrate Memphis Industries being our Label Focus, we have the following special editions available now at Rough Trade, all purchases also come with a free CD sampler:

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/semicircle">Rough Trade Exclusive - 500 Copies on 180-gram Green Vinyl with Download.</a>

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/open-here">Rough Trade Exclusive - 500 Copies on Limited Edition 180-gram Blue Vinyl housed in Die Cut Sleeve with Download.</a>

Label Focus - Memphis Industries

February 2018 sees the return of Field Music with Open Here on Rough Trade exclusive blue colored vinyl via <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/label-focus-memphis-industries">Memphis Industries</a>.

The two years since Commontime have been strange and turbulent. If you thought the world made some kind of sense, you may have questioned yourself a few times in the past two years. And that questioning, that erosion of faith - in people, in institutions, in shared experience - runs through every song on the new Field Music album. But there's no gloom here. For Peter and David Brewis, playing together in their small riverside studio has been a joyful exorcism. Open Here is the last in a run of five albums made at the studio, an unprepossessing unit on a light industrial estate in Sunderland. Whilst the brothers weren't quite tracking while the wrecking balls came, the eviction notice received in early 2017 gave the brothers a sense of urgency in the recording of Open Here. There probably won't be many other rock records this year, or any year, which feature quite so much flute and flugelhorn (alongside the saxophones, string quartet and junk box percussion). But somehow or other, it comes together. Over thirteen years and six albums, Field Music have managed to carve a niche where all of these sounds can find a place; a place where pop music can be as voracious as it wants to be.