Free Download: Field Music's Tight, Tuneful 'A New Town'

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Field Music are pop formalists who've mastered a vein of melodic, clever English rock music pioneered by the likes of Paul McCartney, Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis Costello and XTC. "A New Town," a track from their forthcoming album Plumb, is a fine introduction to the band's style, with its elegant vocal melody set against a backdrop of tight beats and densely arranged guitar and keyboard parts.

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"It's a conversation between the two parties in a disintegrating relationship played out against a soundtrack of super-stereo double drumming and bubble blowing," singer and songwriter David Brewis says of the song. Plumb will hit stores on February 13th, but you can download "A New Town" for free now.

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Song Stories

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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