Annstiina – field

Annstiina is mostly known for art pop, the kind of carefully built songs that live in synths and vocal layers, not bare keys. On field, she drops all of that and sits alone at a piano in Järvenpää on a grey December day, thinking about couples who fell in love and then watched war rearrange their lives. The EP was improvised in one go on Finnish Music Day, and you can hear that decision in the way ideas arrive.

“feather” plays like the first scene. The left hand moves gently, almost hesitant, while the right hand circles a melody that starts in that romantic, Chopin-leaning zone you picked up on and slowly relaxes into something lighter. It feels like early days of a relationship, still careful, already warm. “soft and grey” pushes closer to score work, with a fantasy tint in the harmony and slightly more dramatic phrasing, the kind of piano cue you could drop under a slow pan across winter fields in a period drama.

“concrete” shifts the weight. The low register comes forward, chords land harder, and the mood tightens, like the point in the story where news arrives and everything narrows. The title fits: it feels heavier under the hands, less floaty, more about carrying through. The title track, “field”, hints at something darker with its opening chord but quickly opens into a gentler, nostalgic theme, like walking the same ground after a long time away and noticing what changed.

“dancing until you arrive” is the most obviously cinematic piece here, built for montage: movement in the right hand, steady pacing, enough emotional lift to suggest hope. “whatever it takes” closes the circle with more tension in the harmony and longer pauses, a piece that sounds like someone talking themselves through the next step. As a whole, field is a compact piano EP that feels ready-made for sync: war dramas, Nordic series, quiet documentaries, any scene that needs memory, waiting, or post-battle calm without swelling into cliché.