Michael Plater is a U.K-based Australian experimental/folk/psych/indie/noir musician and multi-instrumentalist. His first two solo albums “Exit Keys” (2012) and “Mythologies” (2016) received world-wide critical acclaim, with “Mythologies” being re-released in expanded form in the U.K in 2018 through cult British folk/psyche/drone label Reverb Worship. In recent years, he has also released music on such labels as Hypostatic Union (U.K), Dub Cthonic (U.K), Woodford Halse (U.K), Hibernate (U.K), Laily Recordings (U.K), and More Than Folk Records (France).

Michael has also played in the U.K-based dark folk ensemble GhostShips, the ambient project Ghosts of Electricity, the Gothic soundscapes act The Northern Lighthouse Board, Melbourne garage rockers The Exit Keys, and folkloric collective Cornish Wreckers. 

His acclaimed new solo album, “Ghost Music,” is out now on Hypostatic Union. 

Selected Press:

"Beautiful and timeless...Music that breaks your heart." (Peek-a-Boo Magazine, Belgium)

"Dark folk (via destabilised post-punk) and epic mind-bending pieces which leave you gasping for air" (I-94 Bar, Sydney)

"Multifaceted and very emotional...bewitching" (Gezeitenstrom Musik Magazine, Germany)

"Mythologies is an album made of that sweet melancholy that we know so well…at once familiar and reassuring, like an old friend who comes to visit you when a rainy horizon weighs on your soul." (Mithra Templezine, France) 

“Late-night indie rock 'n' roll, woozy dreampop atmospherics, and a generous helping of Gothic Americana,” (Bliss Aquamarine, U.K) 

"His seemingly sweet music approaches you almost tenderly, then comes the deep, deep voice... A voice that carries a real melancholy...exciting, rock and roll and lyrical," (New Box Magazine, France) 

"Michael is an Australian musician who has a deep baritone voice, a voice that he uses to great effect...There are some nice touches in the playing with slide guitar, Leslie harmonica, violin, organ accordion, bass and drums...The album ends with ‘The Dreamer’s Dream’, mostly instrumental, it’s also my favourite, with some fine ensemble playing, tremolo guitar, martial drums and heavily amped harmonica," (Terrascope, U.K)

"Michaels warm, very melodious and deep voice exudes a draft of a special kind and creates goosebumps." (Independent Sounds, Germany)

"Listening to Michael Plater's music, the names that come to mind are Nick Cave, Nikki Sudden (in his 'solo works'), Lou Reed... Intimate folk-blues ballads, with an underground taste...a songwriter with talent...Heartfelt music from a sensitive soul, surely. Very good work." (Sudden Art Music Magazine, Italy)

"Fantastic and melancholic songs, sung with his strong and expressive voice." (At Sea Compilations, Germany)

"Mythologies is vocal-driven, Plater’s deep voice laying down a trail into the forest, the guitars and occasional harmonica and piano are the dark unknown around us…we’re lucky to have him,” (Robert Brokenmouth, I-94-Bar)



Bandcamp: http://michaelplater.bandcamp.com

Website: 
www.michaelaplater.wixsite.com/michaelplater
 
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmecIpsw-N0GnEFmoESiZuOcUnYiy0U2C

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AntiClock Records is a small independent record label dedicated to experimental, classical, and folk forms of music. We also specialize in unique handcrafted releases.We do limited trade distribution with other small labels.

We are always interested in hearing new music, particularly that which represents the occult or the recondite. Please do not send mp3 attachments. Please do send links to mp3s. We listen to everything that is submitted. We will contact you if we are interested.

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"Ghosts of Electricity" is a soundscapes/experimental collaboration between Australian musicians Dean Richards (Disturbed Earth, Whirlywirld, Equal Local) and Michael Plater.

bandcamp link: https://ghostsofelectricity1.bandcamp.com/

“Ghosts of Electricity is an ambient project with ethereal soundscapes, electronic cascades, and multi-faceted instrumentation…The atmosphere touches corners of mystical and dark tones, in which the listener decides which associations he imagines in his head to the music.” (Gezeitenstrom Music Magazine, Germany)

"Hauntingly atmospheric...full of ghostly and beautifully dark ethereal sounds," (Dark Moments, Australia)

Soundscapes for Victorian séances and nocturnal forest gatherings. Abandoned lighthouses, possessed goats, occulted moons and haunted doll houses.

Bandcamp: https://thenorthernlighthouseboard.bandcamp.com/

http://www.reverbworship.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/northern_board

Email: thehaunteddollshouse@gmail.com

"A rather wonderful and mysterious disc of recordings...this is really 
too good to miss. If you liked Needle Into A Bug, owHH, The Hare And the Moon and various other creepy stuff I've done this will be right up your street" (Roger Linney, Reverb Worship) 

"The music involves sinister synthesizer swathes, doleful, doomy and slow-moving. Bleats, birdsong, tolling bells and distorted voices occasionally intrude. It is all splendidly like the half-preserved soundtrack to a forgotten low-budget Nineteen Seventies (oc)cult film. To be enjoyed while perusing your well-thumbed, luridly-covered paperbacks of Blackwood, Machen and Hope Hodgson" (Mark Valentine, Wormwoodiana) 

"The Northern Lighthouse Board is an actual non-governmental body in Scotland that deals with the maritime affairs surrounding a certain lighthouse. However, it is also a British project that seeks darkness rather than light. It is not clear who is behind this project, but that actually fits with the music, which is also quite mysterious. In 45 minutes, 18 tracks are reviewed, somewhere between synth wave, dark wave, drones and film music for the better horror film. The music seems to have been created mainly with synthesizer, field recordings and samples, but with that a varied dark and compelling sound is shown. You know how to hypnotize the music and drag it away from everyday reality. I think fans of The Heartwood Institute, Needle Into A Bug, SPK and Seabuckthorn know what to do with this. Again such a wonderful feature on the ever-surprising Reverb Worship label" (Jan Willem Broek, Het Schaduwkabinet, De Subjectivisten)

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