Walking Field

Description

Peals is a new band led by William Cashion (Future Islands) and Bruce Willen (Double Dagger), members of two of Baltimores most dynamic live bands.

The instrumental music on Walking Field was created with acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, tambourines, toy pianos, and other sonic tools to create a stripped-down, warm living room atmosphere.

The music that sprang from these sessions, simultaneously exultant and cerebral, took the duo into unexpected territory. While the emotional intensity of their other projects is on full display here, a more gentle, melancholic and often abstract expression recalls Robin Guthrie and minimalist recordings from the sonic pioneers of the 1970s German scene all direct inspirations for Peals as the songs that would become Walking Field took shape.

Walking Field was recorded with no bass guitars or drums all percussion sounds were generated by contact with guitars and microphones the emphasis here is placed on texture and feeling.

LP formats have fully artworked innersleeve and a download coupon for all tracks.

Limited deluxe LP edition (150 copies for the UK, exclusively available to independent retailers) includes a bonus 7 with two unreleased non-album tracks (Night Train To Tuscan / Believers II). The 7 is packaged in its own jacket and included with the LP.