While most revivalists are content to ape a single genre, this London quintet is bringing back two bygone British styles at once: the pixieish acid folk of the ’70s and the fuzzed–out shoegaze pop of the ’90s. On Fields’ full–length debut, acoustic strumming, rustic woodwinds and boy–girl harmonies give way to woozy synth swirls, jagged riffs and effects–pedal tempests. Singer and primary songwriter Nick Peill, a former schoolteacher, matches the windswept mood with doomy ruminations (song titles include “The Death” and “Skulls and Flesh and More”). The dense, surging atmospherics can produce a trancelike effect, as on the majestic opening track, “Song for the Fields,” but over the course of an album, the predictable crests and dips seem less melodramatic than monochromatic.

Download: “Song for the Fields,” “The Death”