David Brewis releases new solo single "Start Over"

Last month Brewis announced The Soft Struggles with the lead outing "The Last Day", and today (7 December) he's unveiled a second song from the record titled "Start Over".

Of the track, Brewis said, "Most of us will have moments where weariness seems insurmountable but somehow or other we muddle through."

Whenever Peter [Brewis] or I release music outside of Field Music we’re asked, “what makes this different from a Field Music record?” Well, my best explanation is that in Field Music it feels like we’re aiming for a synthesis of everything we’re interested in at any one time," Brewis said of his upcoming record. "With each record we add a few more ingredients to the pot and some flavours drift into the background. But when either of us just want to focus on one thing, on one particular palette, that’s when the solo projects and extra-curricular activities come into their own. The Soft Struggles does indeed have a very particular focus and very particular palette."

He concluded, "From our entire combined catalogue, this album is possibly the furthest away from any recognisable “Field Music sound”; the thoroughly-unplugged instrumentation, jazz-inflected songwriting, spontaneous ensemble playing, including dazzling contributions from Sarah Hayes and Faye MacCalman, and lush string arrangements which twist around and punctuate the songs. And perhaps, like the experiments of School of Language or The Week That Was or Frozen By Sight, this album will eventually become part of Field Music’s bubbling stew. Or perhaps not."