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The Field Returns After Eight Years With New EP Now You Exist
Axel Willner revives The Field with Now You Exist, a five-track EP out now on Studio Barnhus after an eight-year gap.
The Field has finally resurfaced. The project led by Axel Willner has been largely quiet since 2018’s Infinite Moment, and if Wikipedia is any guide, the only release tied to his name in the meantime arrived in 2020, when he and Pelle Lundquist issued a lengthy compilation under their Lars Blek alias via a lengthy compilation. That makes Now You Exist, his new EP, a notable return for anyone who has followed The Field’s long, strange drift through electronic music over the years.
It is not, though, a return to the exact terrain that made early Field records so singular. Listeners hoping for something in the vein of From Here We Go Sublime will need to recalibrate. Now You Exist moves away from the futuristic club pulse of that era and instead settles into something broader and more elemental: five tracks built like electronic post-rock, all scale and atmosphere. The nearest it gets to a recognizable dance pattern comes on “Hey Baby,” which offers a geometric beat in flashes. Elsewhere, the record leans into static-rimmed, surging textures that feel less like a club reset than a sustained wave.
Now You Exist is out now on Studio Barnhus.
