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You Tell Me

You Tell Me

Release Date: Jan 11, 2019

Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock

Record label: Memphis Industries

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Album Review: You Tell Me by You Tell Me

Great, Based on 5 Critics

Exclaim - 80
Based on rating 8/10

Field Music's Peter Brewis has embarked on a new project with Sarah Hayes, of Glasgow-based group Admiral Fallow, entitled You Tell Me. For Hayes' first experience writing lyrics, the duo have presented a melodic and highly expressive collection of songs that belies their relatively new working relationship.   Musically, the record pushes forward with a sense of joy and abandon, despite its duality — Brewis and Hayes channel anxieties stemming from personal challenges through the songs, weaving in constructed scenarios, such as a "Water ….

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Paste Magazine - 78
Based on rating 7.8/10

The music of You Tell Me exists in this glorious place where several decades of British pop gently collide. That is to be expected considering the pedigree of the two singer/songwriters at the helm of this project. Peter Brewis is one-half of the flint-edged post-punk group Field Music, and Sarah Hayes has logged time in the glittering indie pop outfit Admiral Fallow and dabbled in traditional folk as a solo artist.

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AllMusic - 70
Based on rating 7/10

You Tell Me is a collaboration between Field Music's Peter Brewis and Admiral Fallow's Sarah Hayes that has all the chamber pop richness of the former's band, but adds a tenderness and simplicity that helps make their debut album something Field Music-ish but different enough to stand on its own. Chalk much of that up to Hayes' agile vocals and introspective songwriting, but also save some credit for Brewis stretching a bit beyond his usual sound. Hayes' vocals and songs where she takes lead, like the orchestral ballad "Foreign Parts" or the pastoral "Springburn," conjure up Kirsty MacColl comparisons.

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The 405 - 70
Based on rating 7/10

'National Treasure' is a faintly patronising thing to call anyone, but Field Music - Peter Brewis and his brother David's rock day-job - are well on their way to earning that honorific. The consistency of the band's output since the release of their debut album fifteen years ago has remained stubbornly high. Since then Brewis has found time in between recording and releasing half a dozen records to become a father, run a studio (and see it demolished) and work on myriad other compositions and side projects, his latest being the partnership with Sarah Hayes as You Tell Me.

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The Observer (UK)
Opinion: Fairly Good

S tunned by the musicianship of Glasgow band Admiral Fallow while performing at a Kate Bush tribute gig in the city, Peter Brewis recruited their folk-rock flautist, Sarah Hayes, to appear on his band Field Music's excellent 2018 album Open Here. Now, on this full collaborative effort, tentative bridges between the itchy rhythms of Hayes's 2015 solo album Woven, which set traditional lyrics to her new arrangements, and the folky tendencies lurking among Field Music's jagged prog pop open up into fertile vistas of common ground. With a shared love of artists such as the Blue Nile, Rufus Wainwright and, on the rich, prog-tinged Foreign Parts, the aforementioned Kate Bush, these are mature, classy songs.

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