Reviews of Field [12k2039]

Humanity is rarely found in the machine.

This has something visionary and reminds you in phases even of the meditative moments of Aphex Twin. 

Delightful, indeed, work, loose wandering that regenerates the style of glitch with a return to the microsound movement of the beginning of the new century.

It’s a cool step forward for the project soundwise, never too comfortable in its own amorphous skin but still occasionally tapping into moments of true beauty.

An album which must be tracked down to the last corner.

The overall vibe is warm and calm, natural and a bit nostalgic.

A new digital, but deviant future image.

Solemn glitch melancholia

A return to the microsound movement at the beginning of the new century.

An album, the time left, which – albeit on manageable terrain – must be tracked down to the last corner.

Textures of chromatic dust….beautiful combinations of tapping and small percussive contributions.

Dan Abrams has delivered another major micro-sound effort. Seventeen years after his Frame release earned him breathless comparisons to Aphex Twin and Brian Eno, Abrams’ Field is set to delight headphone owners around the world.

A very well realized album.

Recall sthe glories of his masterpiece Frame.

Small debris that become liquid in a system, with a fluidity that brings everything together, whose rhythms are an expression of mood, and not mere mathematicism.

Whenever Dan Abrams turns on the computer, I get hooked.

Field extends Abrams’ beautiful signatures into more diverse terrain, working with ostensibly redundant sonic data – the sound of CPU’s booting up, dying, coughing – and the inherent grain and colour of early DSP algorithms – to creates vivid, living and breathing imaginary spaces.

Shuttle358’s Dan Abrams may have been aiming for a classic and perhaps slightly nostalgic sound with his lovingly resurrected early-2000s tools, but the results are just as affecting and entrancing as they were back then