David Brewis - The Soft Struggles

Released 24th February 2023.

David Brewis of the band Field Music releases his debut solo record The Soft Struggles on 24 February 2023.After three albums as School of Language, David Brewiss next contribution to the ever-expanding Field Music universe is this jazz-inflected acoustic record. It will also be the second album release on Field Musics newly formed Daylight Saving Records label, intended as the home for the Brewis brothers extra-curricular projects.

The Soft Struggles veers away from Field Musics eclectic palette and instead leans into the luminous spontaneity of Van Morrisons Astral Weeks and the breathy, string-laden chamber pop of Colin Blunstones One Year. Several of the tracks were built around a single day of live recording at Field Musics studio in Sunderland, with Davids brother Peter on drums, Sarah Hayes (Admiral Fallow, You Tell Me) on piano and flute and Faye MacCalman (A