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Fields Talk About New Album

27th February 2008 | by Gavin Riley

Fields have announced that they are putting the final touches on their second album.

After last year's captivating debut, which finished third on our end of year top 40 albums list, frontman Nick Peill told his MySpace audience that he and Henry are off to New York to finish mixing the record “in a matter of days”.

However he did reveal Fields are now a foursome, with Jamie Putnam deciding to leave the band as he didn't feel he could spend so much time away from home.

That news apart, Nick has good things to say on the album front describing the new LP as being "quite a different animal to 'Everything [Last Winter]'. Less dense and more optimistic. It is a record about finding beauty and hope in bad situations, as well as being hinged together with a tale about two fractured lovers leaving earth to find other life. The songs were inspired in part by a fantastic book called 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy.

Nick also said that the new record had been recorded in his newly refurbished bedroom which now includes a state of the art studio, which has led to “drinking lots of tea and having a nervous breakdown.”

Details are scarce about the new album, but we'll pass on a tracklist and other info when we have it.