English musician David Brewis has been making artfully complex yet tuneful indie pop since the mid-2000s, both with his brother, Peter Brewis, in the acclaimed band Field Music and with his solo project School of Language. After building up a prolific catalog with both projects, the musical polymath -- Brewis is a singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist -- continued to expand his range on 2023's jazzy chamber folk set, The Soft Struggles, his first album under his own name.
Growing up in Sunderland, Brewis and his brother began playing music in their...