You Tell Me - 'You Tell Me'

Sunderland's Brewis brothers have consistently produced interesting music, either together as Field Music or via their various solo guises and side projects; David Brewis has released a couple of albums under the School of Language banner (2014's Old Fears is an excellent listen, if you've not checked it out already I heartily recommend that you lend it an ear or two), brother Peter forming The Week That Was in 2008 to release a one-off album of self-penned tunes.

You Tell Me is Peter's latest excursion, a collaboration with Admiral Fallow's Sarah Hayes, the pair bonding over a mutual love of Kate Bush to record an eleven track collection of delicate folk-tinged indie, introspective alt-rock and stabby electronica. 

Initial single Clarion Call, a lilting folk number released last September, sounds far removed from subsequent single Water Cooler (which is itself heavily infused with Field Music's DNA). Listen to one after the other and you may even wonder if the same band is responsible for the two songs.


And yet, over the course of their recently released and eponymously titled album, the songs take their place amongst their cohorts, combining to make a very pleasurable listening experience.

The collected songs all have a conversational bent to them, first-person narratives of failing office romance, jealousy and intrigue, that occasionally take dark turns into internal turmoil, all set to beautifully arranged music.