"If Lucifer had a synthesizer, his name would be Glitchfield" - Jim Corrupt.
Glitchfield Plaines appeared on the electronic music scene in late 2013 with a couple of self released tracks; 'Dihydro 78' & 'Day Shifter'. These were quickly followed by 'Travel Plexus' a well received collaboration with Hawk of the Low Hills guitarist & noisemaker Hepman Platofv. In April 2014 Fwonk Records released 'A Tribute to Kurt Cobain' (commemorating 20 years since his passing) featuring Glitchfield's cover version of 'Negative Creep'. 'Squary Tale' a collaboration with Germany's 3dtorus on his EP 'Favourite Delusion' was released via Mobius Spin in July and in September the Glitchfield Plaines EP 'Sentinel Black' was released on Romeda. In 2015 the Romeda Records compilation 'Process' featured the track 'Arptak' as well as 'Nine' from the 'Sentinel Black' EP. The 'Last of the Dark Days' EP was released by Romeda in April 2016. Glitchfield Plaines is also one half of Acid/Techno/8bit outfit Frissk alongside Adam Hell (Ambulance, Avenging Force), and makes up 1/3 of Aptoms with former members of Hawk of the Low Hills.
Glitchfield Plaines appeared on the electronic music scene in late 2013 with a couple of self released tracks; 'Dihydro 78' & 'Day Shifter'. These were quickly followed by 'Travel Plexus' a well received collaboration with Hawk of the Low Hills guitarist & noisemaker Hepman Platofv. In April 2014 Fwonk Records released 'A Tribute to Kurt Cobain' (commemorating 20 years since his passing) featuring Glitchfield's cover version of 'Negative Creep'. 'Squary Tale' a collaboration with Germany's 3dtorus on his EP 'Favourite Delusion' was released via Mobius Spin in July and in September the Glitchfield Plaines EP 'Sentinel Black' was released on Romeda. In 2015 the Romeda Records compilation 'Process' featured the track 'Arptak' as well as 'Nine' from the 'Sentinel Black' EP. The 'Last of the Dark Days' EP was released by Romeda in April 2016. Glitchfield Plaines is also one half of Acid/Techno/8bit outfit Frissk alongside Adam Hell (Ambulance, Avenging Force), and makes up 1/3 of Aptoms with former members of Hawk of the Low Hills.
Last of the Dark Days collects together an assortment of tracks left over from various Glitchfield Plaines projects. Including the vocal track 'Negative Creep' which was previously released via Fwonk Records on 'A Tribute to Kurt Cobain' [FW129], another vocal cover version in The Jam's 'Funeral Pyre'. Also included here is an alternate version of 'Negative Creep' which is a much heavier Industrial/Techno version. The track 'Dols' was originally intended to be on the Romeda Records 'Process' compilation, but was replaced by 'Arptak'. Also we have the track 'Drowning Street' which was constructed using sounds submitted for a horror film soundtrack. 'Everything Must End' is a reworking of track left over from the Sentinel Black sessions, and also included on the EP are the instrumental versions of 'Negative Creep' and 'Funeral Pyre'. 1. Dols
2. Negative Creep 3. Drowning Street 4. Funeral Pyre 5. Everything Must End 6. Negative Creep (Alt. Version) 7. Funeral Pyre (Instrumental) 8. Negative Creep (Instrumental) |
Sentinel Black is a 5 track EP based around the concept of a mini sci fi soundtrack, it uses deep & dark synths and unsettling structures combined with ambient industrial sonics. Opening track 'Nine' takes a simple repeated hornlike bass refrain and layers stuttering atmospherics & a building drum pattern. 'Beneath' shifts from dischordant chimes into masses of reverb & dark mechanics. 'Sentinel' twists through buried spoken word into drifting spacesynth and final track 'Altered' pounds machinelike under disturbed & brittle metallic horns. Available to Download 1. Nine 2. Beneath 3. Bridgewater 4. Sentinel 5. Altered |
Glitchfield Plaines - Sentinel Black EP: Darlings, you may recall some of my vices. Included are silk stockings, stilettos (both shoes and the sharp objects), string sections and stories. Oh yes, the good story. As humanity, we often know not what we do and, even more often than not, why we are doing it. This brings me to the story of "Sentinel Black" an EP released by Marshside auralnaut Glitchfield Plaines. Yes, lovers, there is glitch, but there is also much pitch -pitch BLACK that is!
As per the artist:
"The EP has a concept, almost like a mini sci-fi soundtrack. Hence it is a little dark & unsettling in places. Nine refers to the once planet Pluto. Sentinel Black is the 'entity' that is hidden by it that has been affecting humans for years, influencing our thoughts to be evil."
This is one oddly put together signal, darlings. 'Sentinel Black' works to span several genres and, frankly, does so in a very palatable fashion. It is ambient, has melodic elements and is backed by excellently conceived organic rhythms.
There's a Whovian overtone to the synths in the opener, 'Nine' that I find to be refreshing in the sense that it is not trying to be something else -it just is what it is: the overture to the tale about an evil (oh that WORD) entity known as Sentinel Black.
'Nine' ambles on as shepherd to a horse cart then dissolves into the murky depths of dark ambience that is 'Beneath' which is an echoing opus that does, indeed, feel menacing, but not in the evil sense of menace. 'Beneath' is, simply put, alien and filled with machinery and lacks humanity. Is this what lies beneath? Is the waning light of the Plutonian sun not enough to deter the fears that well up in us as our all too fragile psyches and hands extend to the edges of our solar system? Perhaps this is why 'Bridgewater' feels like a sun soaked wedding. It is triumphant, but at 55 seconds, only briefly: Exeunt rays of sun, enter 'Sentinel' in all of its industrial, organic and metallic glory.
Filled with bits of streaming data, 'Sentinel' conveys a marching ant like quality as it beams its signal of corruption to the people of Earth. It looms. Yes, dear, it looms like a dagger moon.
'Altered' is a stunning conclusion to the tale. It bubbles. It is alien alchemy, turning space dust and ice into avatars of corruption. 'Altered' is ambitious, filled with counter beats and bleeps. I find that this ambition is rewarded.
Evil, dark and unsettling? Marry me, love.
Review by Nancy Deavers 433Eros
As per the artist:
"The EP has a concept, almost like a mini sci-fi soundtrack. Hence it is a little dark & unsettling in places. Nine refers to the once planet Pluto. Sentinel Black is the 'entity' that is hidden by it that has been affecting humans for years, influencing our thoughts to be evil."
This is one oddly put together signal, darlings. 'Sentinel Black' works to span several genres and, frankly, does so in a very palatable fashion. It is ambient, has melodic elements and is backed by excellently conceived organic rhythms.
There's a Whovian overtone to the synths in the opener, 'Nine' that I find to be refreshing in the sense that it is not trying to be something else -it just is what it is: the overture to the tale about an evil (oh that WORD) entity known as Sentinel Black.
'Nine' ambles on as shepherd to a horse cart then dissolves into the murky depths of dark ambience that is 'Beneath' which is an echoing opus that does, indeed, feel menacing, but not in the evil sense of menace. 'Beneath' is, simply put, alien and filled with machinery and lacks humanity. Is this what lies beneath? Is the waning light of the Plutonian sun not enough to deter the fears that well up in us as our all too fragile psyches and hands extend to the edges of our solar system? Perhaps this is why 'Bridgewater' feels like a sun soaked wedding. It is triumphant, but at 55 seconds, only briefly: Exeunt rays of sun, enter 'Sentinel' in all of its industrial, organic and metallic glory.
Filled with bits of streaming data, 'Sentinel' conveys a marching ant like quality as it beams its signal of corruption to the people of Earth. It looms. Yes, dear, it looms like a dagger moon.
'Altered' is a stunning conclusion to the tale. It bubbles. It is alien alchemy, turning space dust and ice into avatars of corruption. 'Altered' is ambitious, filled with counter beats and bleeps. I find that this ambition is rewarded.
Evil, dark and unsettling? Marry me, love.
Review by Nancy Deavers 433Eros
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