THE BEAST

Order Thief's current album "Map Of Lost Keys" as Digipak CD or on vinyl: https://prophecy.lnk.to/thief-2019 "I have always wanted to do a collection of covers from female artists that have been a big inspiration in my life - like Björk, Portishead or Hole - that, in a way, could showcase the dulcimer I used in Botanist. The pieces fell together with this track, as Chelsea Wolfe's first two albums had a huge impact on me; the debut is especially frost-bitten, the sound of Scorpio rising. I wanted to have a visual representation of what happens at the end of the song when the audio begins to "smear" because the dulcimer is being processed live through a few tape/granular modules. The video glitch was created with Conway's Game of Life cellular automation. The visual artist Kaspar Ravel invented this concept, so I reached out to him to learn how to do it. The machines used melt and disintegrate any sense of a "straight line", visually and sonically. Two arrows meet in mid-air. Straight lines in a crooked world. There is no line to be straight or world to be crooked." --- Dylan Neal Filmed by Sean Sweetman at The Lip Studio Engineered by Thomas Queyja Written by Chelsea Wolfe Arrangement by Dylan Neal Mix/Mastered by Dylan Neal Glitch FX by Dylan Neal Guilty Party: Vocals/Synth: Dylan Neal Hammered Dulcimer: Robert Chiang Bass: Chris Hackman Special thanks to: Kaspar (who helped me get his Conway's Game of Life Glitch running: https://www.kaspar.wtf) Thomas Queyja (our patron saint who saved the audio) https://prophecy.lnk.to/thief-2019 https://en.prophecy.de/artists/thief/ https://thief-official.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/THIEFsounds/ https://www.instagram.com/thief_sounds/