“A Field Near Leeds” plays like a lost scene from a David Lynch film that has been translated into sound. Faux Hex abandons traditional song form in favour of spoken words by Jak Hutchcraft that are set against a low and sometimes unsettling musical bed that builds tension through suggestion rather than action.
The track moves on instinct by allowing silence, repetition, and restraint to shape its atmosphere. There is nothing rushed nor clean resolved. As a project connected to the brilliant mad minds of Erotic Secrets of Pompeii, Faux Hex carries over the same taste for the strange and thought provoking, but has a tendency to strip songs to bare minimum when required.
What I like about “A Field Near Leeds” is that the music functions as a frame, not a feature. The song isn’t destined for easy consumption, with the spoken words of XX guiding one through a space that feels quietly disorienting, it exists to unsettle, to hover, and to leave meaning suspended rather than explained.
