There’s Another Song, Leave It On

The Week That Was “The Story Waits For No One”

Peter Brewis is exceptionally gifted at creating arrangements that balance placid melodic figures with tense rhythms, resulting in compositions that cover the sort of complicated, muted, in-between emotions that fill up most of our lives, but rarely are articulated accurately in song. “The Story Waits For No One” gracefully glides from melody to melody, switching from piano to guitar to strings and back around again, letting each instrument convey a different shade of the same emotional hue. As with all Brewis compositions — including the Field Music records, and his brother/partner’s David’s album under the name School of Language — the tone is very understated but highly agreeable, and equally rewarding as background music or something to listen to attentively on headphones.

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