Sense Field have been pegged as an
emo band, and, to their credit, they avoid most of the cliches that plague other bands in the genre;
Sense Field's emotionally resonant songs employ the spare, driving urgency of
emo bands like
Sunny Day Real Estate, but combine it with the tunefulness of more straightforward
power pop bands like the
Plimsouls. Musically,
Sense Field is fairly conventional -- a jangly, textured mix of electric and acoustic guitars washing over mid-tempo beats -- but
Jonathan Bunch's strident and frequently off-key vocals add the raw, keening tension that makes the "
emo" tag appropriate. ~ Andy Hinds