Field of Reeds

Studio album by These New Puritans

Released

10 June 2013

Genre

Neoclassical dark wave, art rock, post-rock

Length

53:00

Label

Infectious

Producer

Jack Barnett and Graham Sutton

These New Puritans chronology

Hidden
(2010)

Field of Reeds
(2013)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	82/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
allmusic
Consequence of Sound
Contact Music	(9/10)
Drowned In Sound	(9/10)
The Guardian
MusicOHM
Pitchfork Media	(8.4/10)
The Skinny
This Is Fake DIY	(8/10)
Uncut	(8/10)

Field of Reeds is the third studio album by British art rock band These New Puritans, released on 10 June 2013 on Infectious Music. Produced by Jack Barnett and Graham Sutton, the album features prominent contributions from over thirty-eight session musicians, including fado singer Elisa Rodrigues, and finds the band "reinventing themselves as a neoclassical ensemble." The album is the band's first without keyboardist Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, who departed from the band in 2012.

Released to widespread critical acclaim, Field of Reeds reached number ninety on the UK Albums Chart.

During the recording of Field of Reeds the band worked extensively with classical musicians and singers, including two large ensembles: the Stargaze Ensemble and the Synergy Vocal Ensemble. Regarding the recording process, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jack Barnett noted, "We pissed off a lot of people making this album, and drove a lot of people mad. We worked long hours of the day, every day. I'm a bit of a perfectionist. Maybe some of the musicians thought, "It's some popular music project, we can all relax, put our feet up." But it was a big challenge."

On 13 June 2013 the band released a music video for the album's second track, "Fragment Two", directed by Daniel Askill. Videos were also made for "Organ Eternal" and "V(Island Song)".

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