At least a dozen bands have been compared to XTC during the recent post-punk revival, but UK trio Field Music has a specific XTC fetish, stealing from the band what XTC stole from Steve Reich. Field Music's self-titled debut album delights in reducing pop songs to a few simple elements, then combining and recombining them in elaborate overlays. After a pair of fine-but-elusive Britpop romps at the top, Field Music gets arty in earnest with a stunning three-song suite: the elastic, rippling "Pieces," the halting, baroque "Luck Is A Fine Thing," and the dreamy, asymmetrical "Shorter Shorter." Between the fragments of orchestral splendor, the sprightly Beatles-esque guitar stings, and the washed-out alto harmonies of bandleader brothers David and Peter Brewis, the core of Field Music offers the most righteous deconstruction of pop pleasure since the mid-'90s heyday of Cardinal, Zumpano, and The High Llamas.