“Sensitive” by Field Mice

"Sensitive" was the Field Mice's second single, a seven-inch that Sarah Records sent out in February 1989 with a fold-out poster of a leaf tucked inside, and it's where the band's fragile indie pop edged toward the blur of shoegazing. Robert Wratten and Michael Hiscock wrote it, and it was heard as a stand-up-and-be-counted statement of intent, a defence of feeling that pushes back at the way sensitive people get scorned or even punished for it.

It climbed to 12 on the UK Independent Chart that March, and it was voted in at 26 in the 1989 Festive 50. Both of its tracks were later added when Snowball, the band's first mini-album, came back out on CD.

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