FIELDS frontman Sean O'Brien on why striking new debut album Silence Of Staying In is being released now Sob_92 TheSilenceOfStayingIn BuyIrishMusic fieldstheboys
When FIELDS frontman Sean O'Brien came up with the title Silence Of Staying In for their debut album, he could never have anticipated how prophetic it would comes across in these times.
Charismatic guitar man and singer Seán O’Brien is quick to dismiss any ideas that the title was a prediction of our current climate. Fears of misinterpretation aside, FIELDS were challenged with the difficult decision of potentially delaying the release of the album when Covid-19 arrived in Ireland. "It’s great for the mind and the soul. So hopefully people who come across our album will be a little more receptive to it.”Though FIELDS has been actively releasing music since 2015, O’Brien considers the new 12-track album to be something of a beginning for the band, which he founded as a solo project.
"How it has changed versus how it has remained so unapologetically the same. There’s a lot of external emotion there, and I think it just gradually seeped into the songs.”On first listen, you may feel FIELDS are a band focused on making vast, powerful sounds, however, it’s clear that words are emphasized just as much by the band who include a short poem titled ‘The Silence Of Staying In’ on the insert of physical copies of the album."This condition. Served by hand, a state of being.
"Reverence remains, somewhere between the hours as these hands pass mahogany and stone, to down our promises. Together.Intentional or not, the words are particularly poignant in these uncertain times. On ‘The Silence Of Staying In’, FIELDS muster up a poignant and thoughtful debut collection of songs with depth of sound and sentence.
Our friend Diarmuid Cronin created a glorious video to accompany the track, which was filmed between spots in Dublin and the lads’ local ‘The Tally-Ho’ in Longford.‘Get Worse’ is technically the first single release from the album, although we revisited the track after its 2018 release and decided to re-record certain parts to make it fit on the album.5) Northern FlowerIt found its feet very quickly with a mellow, atmospheric production.
‘To Rule’ is the beginning of the second half of the album, and similar to ‘Post’, it is a short instrumental, intro to the rest of the record. We captured the sound of a busy pub to help set that tone, as the song transitions into ‘To Reconcile.’‘To Reconcile’ was probably the most important song during the whole recording of the album.Throughout the song, there are a lot of intertwined melodies and counter melodies, all played with different instruments.
It was always intended as a fun, sing-along type song, but in truth, it really found its swagger when our pal Liam McCabe recorded saxophone on it.
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