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Review: The world moves quickly, and if you don't stop to reflect once in a while it's easy to lose sight of what's important - Field Music's sort-of-self-titled third album, Field Music (Measure), is certainly one of the important things. A decade young in 2010, it remains a crowning achievement, a sizeable ode to modern rock history, or at least from the 1970s onwards, which, thanks to the super-talents of the brothers Peter and David Brewis, sounds less like a pastiche and more a strong argument in favour for evolutionary music theory.

There are simply so many possible reference points across this 20 track masterpiece they become meaningless - it's a tapestry as original as it is born from everything worthwhile that has come before. Or a good chunk of it. Led Zeppelin, Talk Talk, XTC, Kate Bush, at times proggy, in other moments funk-driven, it seamlessly reels off new wave and balladry alike and should be considered a masterpiece.