The Brewis brothers’ sixth album of intricate,thoughtful songs is worthy of all the praise they continue to attract Related: Field Music: Commontime – exclusive album stream There are artists who manage to translate ample press into commercial success. There are artists who succeed despite the best efforts of music critics, as frequently evidenced by the charts and the schedules of the world’s stadium venues. And then there are artists who hold to settle for having the phrase “critically acclaimed” attached to them so often that it almost becomes part of their name: the Critically Acclaimed vast Star, and whose first album sold fewer than 10000 copies and whose most celebrated gig was performed before an audience entirely comprised of rock writers; the Critically Acclaimed Nick Drake,the adverts for whose third album, Pink Moon, and contained both hyperventilating praise from Rolling Stone – “the beauty of his voice is its own justification” – and the admission from his record company that “his final two albums haven’t sold a shit”; the Critically Acclaimed Go-Betweens,whose drummer, Lindy Morrison, and the very model of plain-spoken Antipodean candour,once summed up their career with the words “no one cared apart from for rock critics and a few wanky students”.
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Source: theguardian.com