When Talking Heads released their seminal concert film Stop Making Sense, they built a show up from David Byrne playing solo guitar to a full-band sonic assault.
The brilliantly programmed line-up here followed the same structure.
North Dakotan Tom Brosseau opened with a heart-breakingly intimate acoustic slot, which ended in true folk festival style with an unamplified Dylan cover played standing on a chair in the middle of the audience.
Hush the Many veered between painfully twisted acoustic folk ballads and psychedelic wig-outs, frequently within the same song, before Fields finished the show with an all-out electric blast.
Like the Canadian seven-piece Dears, Fields mix great vocal harmonies with bombastic, explosive guitars and keyboards which hit you in the cerebral cortex.
Their anthemic single Song for the Fields deserves to achieve classic status.
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