Biography

Field Guides is the ever-shifting project of Brooklyn-based artist Benedict Kupstas, accompanied by an expansive list of collaborators both live and on record—including Nico Hedley, Matt Evans, Alena Spanger (Tiny Hazard), Carmen Q. Rothwell, Drew Citron, and members of The War On Drugs, Adeline Hotel, Stars Like Fleas. With Ginkgo, the band's third album—after 2014’s Boo, Forever (which The Big Takeover called “sprawling, dense, and mysterious”) and 2019’s This Is Just a Place (which Gold Flake Paint called “one of the year’s most rewarding discoveries”)—Kupstas has created a "profoundly organic indie folk space" (PopMatters), a record "full of beautifully intricate details and crashing waves of melody" (For The Rabbits). “Taking cues from the cryptic allusive wordplay of Joni Mitchell, the hushed explosiveness of Yo La Tengo, and the 'new weird' songcraft of Big Thief.”—Phillip Pantuso “A collection of songs which rewards close and repeated listens, born in one man’s vision and realised within a community of collaboration. A record of turmoil, fear, and unease that seeks wonder not via some great transcendence but rather what already lies near.”—Jon Doyle, Various Small Flames “[A] sort of link between the likes of Bill Callahan and David Berman.”—Austin Town Hall