The Far Field is the fifth studio album by American synthpop band Future Islands, released on April 7, 2017 through 4AD.

[1] Several parallels can be made between this studio album and the band's second studio album, In Evening Air: both are titled after the final volume of poetry by Theodore Roethke, and both have album art produced by former band member Kymia Nawabi.

[2] The Far Field received generally positive reviews from music critics.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 29 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews"[3] and UK-based music webzine Drowned In Sound ranked it at 98 on their list of 100 favorite albums of 2017.

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