I'm gushing, I know, but listening to something as lovely and effusive as this album on repeat can only inspire those same qualities in those fortunate enough to hear.
Though it’s on par with its predecessor in terms of repetition, Yesterday And Today is also on that level in terms of quality—which should mean no disappointments.
Even when Willner allows the tracks to pitch and shift, such as on the eponymous “Yesterday and Today,” there is a matter of control and structure that is still intact. Yesterday and Today proves that although the path can remain the same, what matters is how the journey takes us more than where. It gets you coming and going.
Two years on from his debut, Willner seems able to entrust his sounds to travel longer distances, allowing his excursions in techno to stretch out into extended triumphant motorik journeys. Forget about what Yesterday & Today isn’t and embrace it for what it is.
These critiques seem bald when considering how deftly the Field's managed to flesh out an aesthetic that might have tired quickly, testimony that the Field ain't no one-trick pony, even if that trick's still the stuff of first-place finishes.
Yesterday and Today is a brilliant sequel, one that retains the strongest elements of its predecessor whilst bravely pushing forward into new territory.
As with most of the Field’s music, Yesterday and Today works better through headphones than in the club. You’d get too many people transfixed, just staring out into the middle distance. But that’s what makes it such a powerful experience to listen to on your own.
Yesterday and Today, the sophomore effort from The Field (nee Axel Willner), can be easily understood as part of the tradition of moody follow-ups a la In Utero: a pairing of a signature sound with willful experimentalism.
‘Organic’ is a word that has influence and is often applied, but hardly does justice to so otherworldly a record as Yesterday and Today. A pulse very rarely makes you feel this alive.
Yesterday and Today may not be a classic, but it could certainly soundtrack a quality chill-out room.
Swedish electronic dance producer Axel Willner consistently finds the sweet spot between breathlessness and breathing too hard on his follow-up to 2007's acclaimed From Here We Go Sublime.
After a few listens, the charm of many of Willner's soundscapes fades: They provide a certain Vicodin-buzz pleasure — and then they don't.
HEY EVEYRONE HAHA WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE FIELD MAKES LIFE-AFFIRMINGLY ORGASMIC MUSIC IN CASE YOU WEREN'T ON THE WAVE YET
1 | I Have the Moon, You Have the Internet 8:02 | 81 |
2 | Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime 6:51 | 96 |
3 | Leave It 11:37 | 94 |
4 | Yesterday and Today 10:08 | 94 |
5 | The More That I Do 8:36 | 82 |
6 | Sequenced 15:40 | 87 |
#12 | / | Resident Advisor |
#36 | / | No Ripcord |