On the heels of indie-rock stardom in Field Music, Peter Brewis is taking after his bandmate and brother David Brewis by releasing a side-project album under a pseudo-band moniker. Dubbed 'The Week That Was,' Peter tells Spinner that the music is similar to Field Music except that he "called all the shots" and wrote the music during a one-week creative spurt in which he turned off the television, shut down his internet and stopped reading the news.

"The original idea was to sit down for a week and write some songs based on a little story I'd come up with," Brewis says. "I didn't really intend to be so shut off but in doing so it certainly affected my state of mind and the content of the songs. Afterwards, I realized that I can't just cut myself off from things because I don't trust the presentation of whatever is going on. Actually, I realized that as I was writing the stuff. I just hadn't realized quite what I'd realized."

Whatever that means, dude. What we do know is that The Week That Was will open for the Sea and Cake on the West Coast beginning November 28th, following the album drop on September 23rd. As for the actual week that was, Brewis clarifies that it wasn't, as they say, the best week ever. "Maybe next week will be my favorite," he says. "Yes, I think it will." That's being optimistic, but what the hell -- we'll take it.