(Field) music to my ears

Good news for all right-thinking fans of erudite British guitar pop: Field Music's hiatus is over - and how, with the release of a double album, Field Music (Measure), scheduled for 15th February.

Also spotted on recent perusals of Drowned In Sound: there's a new LCD Soundsystem album on the horizon ("spartan and muscular, the way LCD stuff often is", according to James Murphy), the obviously restless Animal Collective have followed up the end-of-year-list-conquering Merriweather Post Pavilion with a new EP, Fall Be Kind and Tom Campesinos talks about forthcoming third album Romance Is Boring (some samples of which were aired at their recent Oxford gig).