SUNDERLAND duo Field Music will be heading out on a UK tour following the release of their latest album.

Siblings Peter and David Brewis have released Commontime, their first album since 2012’s Plumb.

Written and recorded in spontaneous bursts over six months in their Wearside studio, Commontime is built around the brothers playing, writing and singing together again after four years of solo works, collaborations and soundtracks.

However, the album also features a wider array of players, including original Field Music keyboardist Andrew Moore, Peter's wife Jennie Brewis and new member of the live band Liz Corney on vocals, along with a panoply of strings and brass.

The space that Field Music vacated still appears to be empty. No one else really does what Field Music do: the interweaving vocals, the rhythmic gear changes, the slightly off-chords, the obvious lack of bombast, the songs which end abruptly or merge into others. And while these idiosyncrasies remain, Commontime shows off the brothers' unashamed love of choruses and classic pop and rock in a way they’ve only hinted at before.

Perhaps the overwhelming influence on the brother’s recent song writing, intentionally or not, is fatherhood. Both have become dads since the release of previous album Plumb.

"I've had a few shifts in perspective - I can't help but write about family things now” Peter discloses.

David's album closer Stay Awake is an apology to his wife for grumpy days following baby induced sleepless nights whilst The Morning Is Waiting For You is Peter’s song for his young son, surely one of Field Music's most tender moments.

Field Music have always been a unique proposition; a band that stand apart from tired rockist, and rock and roll tropes, who consistently question what it is to be a band, who plough a furrow that, since their 2005 debut has been theirs and theirs alone.

Now more than ever, with conversations and choruses, family and friendship at the heart of Commontime, Field Music are something to be truly treasured.

To hear music from Field Music’s latest album catch them on tour when they perform at The Globe, Cardiff, on March 3.

For more information or for tickets please visit globecardiffmusic.com.