{"id":888,"date":"2017-11-12T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-track-and-field-natural-light\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T23:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T23:29:52","slug":"review-track-and-field-natural-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-track-and-field-natural-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Review:\u00a0Track and Field – Natural Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The appeal of Track and Field<\/b> is a fairly straightforward one, even if that hasn’t always been the case. Their earlier material still had both feet firmly placed in emo, but a brand that was hushed and rickety, not as piously worshipping at the altar of American Football as others, but the comparisons were indeed there.<\/p>\n

By comparison, ‘Natural Light’<\/i> feels like a band who’ve grown up and moved away from blatant hero worship. Even if this album doesn’t bring anything particularly novel to the table, a tough ask for emo as it is, particularly nowadays, Track and Field<\/b> still prove themselves to be remarkably adept at crafting lush, cinematic soundscapes with such ease that it hardly matters. There’s a quiet build to tracks like ‘Drown’<\/i> that plays with some gorgeous, liquid tones. While the delayed guitars and Mick Grogan’s reverb drenched vocals on ‘Ashes’<\/i>, provides a sense of a band looking beyond their narrow ecosystem for something a lot bigger. It wouldn’t be too much of stretch to even bring in comparisons to U2 at points.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, that does also come with a drawback. Specifically how such a focus on big, shimmering textures doesn’t seem to be the wisest move for some of the things that Track and Field<\/b> are trying. It’s mainly evident when the desire for an upbeat sensibility is brought forward, and thus tracks like ‘Horizons’<\/i> and ‘Stitches’<\/i> can feel garbled when guitars with a bit more drive feel so loose and watery. It’s not necessarily a major problem – Track and Field<\/b> are smart enough to know that their biggest strengths come in mid-tempo expanse and play accordingly. But in what could break up an admittedly samey album, the execution could’ve been carried out with a bit more precision.<\/p>\n

‘Natural Light’<\/i> is still the product of a band going through a transition, and the sense of trial and error is still key to establishing an identity. Here, Track and Field<\/b> are a lot closer to actually doing that, and as a fully-formed body of work, this is a promising start. In terms of how its scope and atmosphere are crafted, it shows a band for whom the passage of time only sees them getting better.<\/p>\n

3.5\/5<\/p>\n

‘Natural Light’<\/i> by Track and Field<\/b> is out now on Beth Shalom Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Track and Field<\/b> links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Luke Nuttall (@nuttall_luke<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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