So far, Field Music's second LP Tones of Town has done an unusually good job of both exceeding and circumventing expectation. The strings, synths and undulating structure of first single, In Context rode in atop a whip-crack percussion loop which hinted strongly at a Prince obsession, while A House Is Not A Home gave a snippet of Beethoven birdsong a new lease of life as an ode to sharing space and as a tumbling, insistent piano-led march. The album itself was greeted by a wave of enthusiasm and critical praise more often reserved for American underground heroes or the hottest of young scenesters. And so, we come to a new single - simultaneously a nod to and a cocked snook at the expectations pointed towards this willful group. To anyone who has followed Field Music live since the release of their first record, She Can Do What She Wants would have been at first the most familiar track on the new record, having made its first outing in the summer of 2005. The track is probably the nearest Field Music will every get to actually telling a story; though the protagonist's final realisation ("Stop taking yourself so seriously!") is pure FM. As perhaps, is the not-so-oblique musical reference to the Motown rhythm section and the sparse, fizzing dialogue between strings and electric piano. On the flip, Field Music demonstrate just how wilful they can be. Following a good natured but heated pre-gig discussion about the nature of pop music conducted between the band and their long-suffering record label, Sit Tighter - a fairly radical reworking of the similarly titled album track - shows the band possibly proving themselves wrong. The essence of the band's argument was that almost anything can be pop music, and that the boundaries for what can be successful are more inclusive than tastemakers might presume (for evidence, think Bohemian Rhapsody, Gnarls Barkley's Crazy, Hey! Ya, Wuthering Heights, Good Vibrations, Britney's Toxic). In so many cases the only concession to a narrower pop sensibility is an inescapable drum beat, an impassioned vocal and a joyful acceptance/disrespect for cliche but equally important is that something which makes it sound like nothing else. With that remit, Field Music set about reconstructing album track Sit Tight as œSit Tighter�. Not a remix in the accepted sense as no sounds from the original recording were used and not intended either as a new direction or as a dilettantish sideline - it's more akin to a cover version by the band's own alter ego. Where Field Music might shun or subvert pop cliches and repetition, their alter egos intended to squeeze every last drop of pop juice from those very same ideas. The only concern is that any punter expecting Field Music to recreate this laptop rehash onstage could be a tad confused by the sweeping modular-rock of the original version.