One listen.

Another TNP song today. Wasn’t expecting it, but I’m writing, so I’m glad.

I feel this is a bit better than the last piece. There’s a bit more captured and it feels more expressive, too. A bit messier, but also a bit more concise.

These New Puritans’ “Field of Reeds” is from Field of Reeds.

I hope you enjoy.

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Choral vocals sounding much like instruments. They’re low and high, and almost overwhelming. Another voice comes in, and it could also be making sounds, and it could also be saying words. It multiplies and spreads, and disappears.

The chorus shifts for a moment and one voice becomes prominent, and then it all suddenly compresses into a single point that drifts along, almost without a care.

In this moment tender vocals and keys come forward, and it’s just nice and gentle. Upon the finishing of the words “I say Yes” the chorus comes back, and those additional vocals return in a different form, and then others layer, and it seems to grow large and all remains overwhelming. Other sound comes in and fills the space, and once more it disappears.

A new moment where it’s a few instruments and they seem not playful, but perhaps willing to play. They’re emphasising a moment, as though this particular point needs to have more attention than others as a passage to what is next. It continues on when the chorus returns in all of its low majesty, spread out in an enclosed space, and it seems to take over everything.

Bits and pieces of instrumentation here and there through it, and is there meant to be a peace? I don’t know, but the chorus is washed away, revealing a minimalism in instrumentation; revealing fragility and tenderness, and something sentimental. Something a little blissful and romantic, perhaps, but also something that seems pensive. Something a little sad.

These sounds move like a collage, and vocals come in, or what sounds like vocals, at least. The sounds sway in a slow pattern, and they carry motion and mood forward, until everything stops and the song ends.