Original image by There Stands the Glass.
Even though my brain tells me I no longer care about “this kind” of music, my heart compels me to keep Field Music’s Flat White Moon on repeat. Listening to the titillating new album by the self-deprecating British band is like riding on a magic bus with an AM radio tuned into a station playing nothing but melody-minded rock weirdos of the 1970s. The roll call of usual suspects discloses the DayGlo sound of Flat White Moon. The influences of Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac), Jeff Lynne (Electric Light Orchestra), Ron and Russell Mael (Sparks), Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe) and Todd Rundgren are present and accounted for. Those references may not mean much to younger readers. I’ll put it this way for them: should Death Cab for Cutie or Haim improve considerably they might one day create an album as rewarding as Flat White Moon.