Album Review: Paul Smith & Peter Brewis - Frozen By Sight

Maxïmo Park’s Paul Smith and Field Music’s Peter Brewis set Smith’s lyrical travel journal to music.

Breaking free of traditional verse and chorus, Smith deals out scattered impressions of people and places, focusing attention on fleeting moments and unimportant details to paint pictures with words, sounding self-conscious as he rather willfully embraces an artfully experimental approach. Brewis comes to his rescue with ambitious chamber-pop arrangements featuring strings, piano and percussion. A pleasant trip around the world in just over an hour with stopovers at Mt Wellington, Perth and Bunbury.