Stations:
“ A haunting, gorgeous soundscape” - Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“It’s a fascinating, detailed, and innovative listen that stands alone musically while inviting contemplative reflection on the sound of the planet itself.” 9/10 - Uncut Magazine
“One of the most unassuming but devastatingly beautiful albums I’ve come across in years.” 10/10 - Higher Plain Music
"Another bold concept wonderfully executed" - The Slow Music Movement
“Haunting and beautiful, draping like sheets of layered voices and drones and hums...wonderfully imagistic music, rife with the experience of witness, even if what is being witnessed is substantially more abstract.” - Treble
"It is completely absorbing, with moments of genuine beauty, and best played as one piece, ten tracks flowing one after the other, organic, accessible and enveloping.” - Ban Ban Ton Ton
“Though the concept seems obscure, the results are beautiful…the descending bells, backward synths, and skittering rhythms will send shivers down your spine.” - Electronic Sound
“No matter how good the music sounds – understanding the process contributes to the album’s enjoyment…the reimagined tracks work like the mostly subdued afterparty for the science conference.” 8/10 - PopMatters
“As with all Field Works projects, the concept and source material are fertile terrain for the imagination, but the music builds beautifully on the low hiss and swoon… even divorced of the scientific reference, Stations is propulsive and lovely, with Hanna Benn’s multi-tracked vocals providing some kinship to albums such as Björk’s Fossora or Tim Hecker’s Love Streams” - Last Rites, Top albums of 2022
"As with other Field Works projects, it is the seriousness and detailed approach Hyatt takes that make sure that the resulting music is nothing short of excellent.” - Echoes and Dust
"The album is a expression of purity…the Field Works project is a conversation in progress, a reassurance that someone, somewhere, is listening.” - A Closer Listen
Cedars:
"Cedars is a beguiling and quietly astonishing piece of work, where Stuart Hyatt’s overarching vision finds its perfect counterweight in an immensely talented and varied array of musicians." - Folk Radio UK
“One of the most beautiful things you’ll hear this year...blurring and uniting different strands in a shoegazey, eternal cosmos of delicious and humanistic sound." - Backseat Mafia
"A gorgeous blend of pedal-steel and fiddle-driven ambient Americana suffused with influences from Lebanon and the Middle East...Absolutely enchanting.” 5/5 - Narc Magazine
“The genius of Field Works shines again...Cedars is an incredible musical experience that deserves to disconnect from the everyday to better lose ourselves in the depths of our memories.” - Les Oreilles Curieuses
"A serene reassurance of the constancy of nature, of passings and rebirths, of our connection with the land and the forests that give us life, it might just be the perfect album for these troubled and uncertain times.” - Folking UK
“A truly delightful record from start to finish, Cedars glows with every spoken and sung word...a direct, demanding response to conservation and climate issues which affect us all. This is an international album, and a song for nature." - Fluid Radio
"It’s perhaps a stretch to compare musician Stuart Hyatt to one of the greatest filmmakers of the times, but dedicated devotees to Hyatt’s work see the records he releases under the Field Works moniker in a similar way. In Cedars, Hyatt reaches new levels, or perhaps better to say broadens his scope as a creator, director and producer with another event to cherish...just an enchanting journey of music and poetry, captivating to fall into.” - Treble
“The lyrics are certainly poignant, but the music also provides a stunningly beautiful backdrop. Hyatt has ventured far beyond Indiana for this Field Works creation, and we are so thankful that he's taken us along.” - Deepest Currents
“The best use of poetry in music I’ve heard for many years. Cedars works on so many levels but it is also just great music. Enjoy the journey." - Higher Plain Music
"Cedars turns out to be a brilliantly developed concept...It might sound far-fetched to some, but it actually works, almost to perfection.” - Living Life Fearless
"Organically connecting Western and Middle Eastern musical traditions, and offering keen reflections on how we treat our world, Cedars is an album worth many returns.” - Indy Week
“Fearless drama, balanced with a sense of vulnerability and peace, is thrilling and sincere…the music here is glorious, spaced-out, evocative, and we continue to examine our place on the Earth.” - Ban Ban Ton Ton
“Like Ry Cooder scoring a tender-hearted indie flick” 8/10 - Uncut Magazine
Maples, Ash, and Oaks: Cedars Instrumentals:
“The album just might represent a prime example of a recently coined genre of ambient Americana. And one that many should follow as an example if they want to continue this line. What we get on ‘Maples, Ashes, and Oaks’ is actually completely new music which at the same time shares both the mood, sense, but also inventiveness and creativity of ‘Cedars.’ - Echoes and Dust
“The results are rather wonderful, with lilting pedal steel, gentle acoustic guitars, distant vocalisations and subtle ambient electronics tiptoeing through a bed of rustling autumnal leaves, birdsong and swaying leaves. There are naturally some experimental moments amongst the lusciousness, but even these are calming, heart-warming and genuinely beguiling. In a word: stunning.” - Juno Records
“Stuart Hyatt’s delightful Field Works series continues. Moments of loveliness abound, but the album is best listened to in full, in one dreamy and very relaxing setting” - Electronic Sound Magazine
“Still a partner album to Cedars but one that functions entirely on its own merits. A beautiful instrumental record, with unique touches from American music and Welsh birds." - Spectrum Culture
“Not just Cedars with the vocals removed; a shining example of the New Age of New Age” - Bill Barnett, WVUD 91.3 FM
"The album is steeped in light that filters through the leaves, an ode to the natural surroundings that gave birth to the original.” - Raven sings the Blues
"The music is faint, verdant and whimsical...a fairytale world that matches simmering ambience with woodland folk and emotive solo piano for fans of Helios, Julianna Barwick or even Sufjan Stevens.” - Boomkat
“Not content with basking in the glory of the stunning Cedars LP, Field Works has de/reconstructed it, replacing the poetic drama with gentle piano & the sounds of nature to accentuate its calming ambient qualities. Serene Sunday listening.” - The Slow Music Movement
Ultrasonic:
"They all essentially duet with the strange chirps and whirs of bats, sometimes creating soothing sonic landscapes, sometimes finding high drama within these natural reverberations. From Dusk to Dawn, it all hangs together perfectly” - Aquarium Drunkard
“One of the best that the genre has had to offer in recent years." - Motherboard
“The breadth and scope of this record is extraordinary" - Bob Boilen, NPR’s All Songs Considered
"What would you say if I told you that one of the year’s best ambient/drone albums was made from field recordings of bats?” - Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“A carefully constructed mosaic journey of exquisite beauty...it’s a portal into a mysterious, nocturnal world that’s as magical as it is strange." - Treble
“An album of majestic beauty…very highly recommended." - Benzine Mag
"The 14 tracks evoke the mystery of bats’ nocturnal escapades, the languor of their hibernation and the existential calamity of the collapse of their habitat.” - New York Times
“Dialogue between nature and humanity is the through-line of the entire series, but Ultrasonic is testimony to its continuous strength; a deeply felt relationship beyond mere environmental and animal rights art-as-activism.” Score: 9/10 - Loud and Quiet Magazine
“Another stunner…it’s lovely to have this tribute at a time when these amazing animals are facing some kind of blame for our current pandemic” - FBI Radio
“His work is so unique and collaborative and shows the power of listening to our environment and listening to each other and what that can achieve for us.” - WFMU
“Field Works has created a sublime record of moving ambient soundscapes that is truly unlike anything you’ve heard before” - Record Crates United
"Hyatt blurs traditional boundaries between field recording, music, and visual art, in a way that is immediately engaging. It's engaging for a lot of reasons, but the key element for me is that his work put you in a specific place, a specific moment.” - Perfect Sound Forever
"The Field Works series shows the hidden aesthetic potential in previously neglected phenomena." - African Paper
"Part of the fun with Field Works can be in contemplating what’s a Hyatt field recording...and what’s likely not…Even better, the musicality of the pieces ensures that these questions aren’t lingered upon too long. Ultrasonic thrives through depth of assemblage, and interaction, and a relationship to the natural world." - The Vinyl District
“Field recordist Stuart Hyatt finds some of the most fascinating sounds on – or beyond – Earth…Ultrasonic represents the Field Works project at both its most musically and conceptually satisfying" - Bandcamp Daily
"Ultrasonic also marks a turn in the Field Works series where Hyatt’s work becomes something bigger, better, and more powerful in the hands of his collaborators whose interpretations are varied but equally stunning.” - Medium
“Don’t let the understated cover fool you, Stuart Hyatt has produced a brilliant new entry in his Field Works Series” - Exclaim!
"Are these bats worth protecting? We didn’t really think about it before we heard this album; but now we don’t want them to say goodbye.” - A Closer Listen
Metaphonics:
Metaphonics is a world in a box, celebrating everything that is not confined to a box: the beauty of nature, relationships and the infinite. It’s a reaffirmation of everything we believe in: important, yes, but oh-so-enjoyable as well. For those interested in the intersection between field recordings and music, Metaphonics is a must-have. - A Closer Listen
“One of the best releases of 2018…but also one of the most deliberately cognizant works of ambient and field recorded music” - Treble
The Clouds:
"Disarming in its sincerity and plainspoken insight, the songs on the album are as direct as any folk tune, as rapturous as the most exuberant gospel number.” - Bandcamp Feature
"It’s impossible not to care about this music.” - James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem)
5/5 "Wow! Wow! Wow!… a cult classic but broadly ignored in the way that classics so often are… I love this so much.” - Outside Left
“A soul-stirring example of sonic folk art, reflecting innocence and purity. Real music by real people.” - Irwin Chusid, DJ and Author of Songs in the Key of Z