Following 2022’s Maelstrom, a fabulous second studio LP from the Dublin quartet of electronic psych-rock with dirty fuzzy synth lines and layered guitars, searing vocals of frontman Eoin Kenny and percussion pushing it all along like unstoppable krautrock train of wizzing, fizzing new wave energy. Every metaphorical carriage rattling along those rails is a banger, from Figment to Waves of Wonder, the gradual build of Clouded, or the fast, restless wriggling, or intricate arpeggios of WLDNG, which feels vividly cinematic. Produced by Gilla Band's Daniel Fox, the title is named after scientific term which describes how forces interact and influence particles around them, and applies it to the interactions between people, and to the space between us. In the second half, Altered is perhaps the catchiest as the pace varies, but the magic of this album is how every track builds, as if filled with increasingly excited molecules, like a crowd of people in a process of interactive electrified energy. As the band put it: “Like gravity we are drawn to and miss people and like light waves we love people and are loved. We live in orbits of each other, drawn by unseen forces. The album explores these forces, how we relate to each other, the people we live with and the people we live without. At the heart of Field Theory lies the realisation that we inhabit each other's worlds as much as our own, through a field of wide-ranging forces, as important as the ones keeping the planets in place.” Wondrous. Out on Fuzz Club Records.
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