From
THE PRESS
"Enigmatic Melbourne troubadour, Michael Plater…explores the dark corners of his inner world, wringing every last
drop of fascination out of his gnarled guitar"
Americana Australia
Mythologies Album Review - Peek-a-Boo Magazine (Belgium)
"Beautiful and timeless...Music that breaks your heart."
The Northern Lighthouse Board Album Review - Wormwoodiana (U.K)
"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."
Ghost Music Album Review - Sun 13 (U.K)
"Ghost Music isn’t a record you choose. Boasting songs that feel as though they were written for your ears only, it chooses you. It’s not true of course, but that’s how great storytellers sink their hooks in, and Plater is most certainly that."
Ghost Music Album Review - I-94-Bar (Australia)
"There's a raw, unearthly power here, and played loud (as I believe this apparently quiet record is intended to be played) the world becomes a different, more exquisite and disturbing place.
“Ghost Music” is bloody magnificent."
Press Links:
Wyrd Daze Interview: https://wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2022/09/18/wyrd-question-daze-michael-plater/
Sun 13 "Ghost Music" album review: https://sun-13.com/2023/02/06/michael-plater-ghost-music/?fbclid=IwAR3nKpkn6oQZBuZPpNjYmuwLt7kxfYePCRDlGIfBYf9vw85B9gguTgc8rXc
Sun 13 Interview, 2023: https://sun-13.com/2023/03/14/michael-plater-interview-writing-songs-is-about-turning-the-conscious-mind-off/
I-94 "Ghost Music" album review: https://www.i94bar.com/reviews/albums/2829-magnificent-offering-served-up-by-expat-plater
Gezeitenstrom Magazine (Germany) "Ghost Music" review: https://gezeitenstrom.weebly.com/reviews/michael-plater-ghost-music-2023?fbclid=IwAR34sqPo3a5_QEON-gcdA3tOBFsTXvAsOqIJR7N0FSO_AhRGgYIz90K_yeI
MangoWave Music Magazine (Germany) review of "Ghost Music": https://mangowave-magazine.com/reviews/michael-plater-ghost-music/
The Noise Beneath the Snow "Ghost Music" review: https://thenoisebeneaththesnow.wordpress.com/2023/02/21/review-michael-plater-ghost-music/
Smelly Flowerpot review of "Ghost Music": https://smellyflowerpot.wordpress.com/2023/02/26/review-floodheadby-tape-runs-out/
Anxious Magazine (Poland) review of Ghost Music: https://anxiousmagazine.pl/recenzje/michael-plater-ghost-music/
Tracks from "Ghost Music" included in Folk Horror Revival's official Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bTgHJWcWQDl9ELHY9btL1
2024 interview with Massimiliano Gallo and myself on Radio Citta Aperta, Rome, Italy :
https://www.radiocittaperta.it/podcast/il-dark-folk-di-michael-plater-arriva-a-roma/
Sun 13 "albums of 2023": https://sun-13.com/2023/12/18/sun-13s-top-50-albums-of-2023/
African Paper review of The Right Hand Is Doomed to Blacken's "Greenbridge 12.11.24":
http://africanpaper.com/2025/05/10/the-right-hand-is-doomed-to-blacken-greenbridge-12-11-24/
Sun 13 review of The Right Hand Is Doomed to Blacken's "Greenbridge 12.11.24":
https://sun-13.com/2025/05/16/the-right-hand-is-doomed-to-blacken-greenbridge-12-11-24/
Exeter's Vanished Rock Venues radio interview, 2023: https://www.mixcloud.com/stevebrownsounds/evrv-michael-plater-chats-plays-tracks-from-ghost-music-cd-alt-folk-faves-influences-jul23/
I-94 2022 article: https://www.i94bar.com/news/expect-musical-alchemy-when-plater-comes-home
I-94 review of "St John's Eve:' https://www.i94bar.com/albums/five-acts-one-adelaide-connection
Terrascope review of "An Alchemical Gathering" split release: https://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_Spring_23.xhtml
I-94 Interview: https://www.i94bar.com/interviews/michael-plater-and-tim-hudspith
B-Side Magazine Interview: https://issuu.com/thebsidemag/docs/bside_issue_89_exported/4
Astral Noize review of The Northern Lighthouse Board's "The Spirit Cabinet": https://astralnoizeuk.com/2020/03/30/the-northern-lighthouse-board-the-spirit-cabinet-unnerving-soundscapes-for-a-still-dark-still-night/
Foxy Digitalis review of Ghosts of Electricity's Field Recordings 2017-2021: https://foxydigitalis.zone/2022/08/05/the-capsule-garden-vol-1-27-august-5-2022/
Rockinshake review and images from the More Than Folk festival in Paris: https://www.rockinshake.com/2019/10/more-than-folk-festival-3/
The Press review of What Colour is Sound Vol. 2: https://thepressmusicreviews.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/what-colour-is-sound-vol-2/
I-94 review of Cornish Wreckers' "Lurid Tales": https://www.i94bar.com/albums/lurid-tales-of-wrecking-and-repose-cornish-wreckers-reachesmars?fbclid=IwAR23Wk7gfGcMRM2rZ1hoNVtHxuTDUIGNs_Lh3yzndRcLSPQHRKOcKKRx3t0
Record Crates United review of "The Northern Lighthouse Board": https://recordcratesunited.com/2019/09/02/september-roundup-meadowsilver-ga-20-abimaro-more/
The Sunday Experience review of The Northern Lighthouse Board's "The Wych Elm": https://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/the-northern-lighthouse-board/
Sing the Nation Electric review of "Lurid Tales": https://singthenationelectric.wordpress.com/2019/07/14/lurid-tales-of-wrecking-and-repose-by-cornish-wreckers/
Terrascope review of Mythologies (U.K edition): https://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_November_18.htm?fbclid=IwAR2N048emfXcy8f1ArXFnZXRvPLbxxr4MNnvL1Jf_p6O5Oo7iwSAwKhecxE
Mithra Templezine review of Mythologies (in French): http://mithratemplezine.com/michael-plater-mythologies/
Bliss Aquamarine review of Mythologies: http://www.blissaquamarine.net/albumreviews30c.html
The Sunday Experience review of "Undulating Waters volume 1":
https://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2018/09/05/undulating-waters-1/
De Subjectivisten review of The Northern Lighthouse Board: https://subjectivisten.nl/het-schaduwkabinet-week-27-2019/?fbclid=IwAR3XYQ97paPcbA34QV9J8jbcJTtXbvYDoOcYi7_Y9SXEaqSpV0e4cw4ZBv0
Peek-a-Boo Review of "Mythologies": http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/reviews/michael-plater-mythologies/
Gezeitenstrom review of "Mythologies": http://gezeitenstrom.blogspot.com/2016/09/michael-plater-mythologies-2016.html
Sleeping Shaman review of Northern Lighthouse Board's 'A Plague of Shadows': https://www.thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/northern-lighthouse-board-plague-shadows/
Mixdown "10 artists to catch" feature: https://mixdownmag.com.au/uncategorised/10-artists-to-catch-live-this-weekend-59/
I-94 live review of "Muscle Shoals Fayre": https://www.i94bar.com/gigs/muscle-shoals
Freewheeling, Sound Art radio, interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7rqn50ITdc&t=1327s
Exeter's Vanishing Rock Venues, Cornish Wreckers radio interview: https://www.mixcloud.com/stevebrownartist/exeters-vanished-rock-venues-with-the-cornish-wreckers-interview-weird-folk-14-10-10-19/
Around the Wireless radio interview with Dean Richards, Glendon Blazely, and Glenn Williams, 2022: https://www.mixcloud.com/MainFm/around-the-wireless-elements-on-radio-17-august-2022/
And This One's Introduced By...3CR Radio Interview: https://www.3cr.org.au/introducedby/episode/and-ones-introduced-michael-plater-introduces-songs-his-album-ghost-music
Bang Bang Radio Interview, Tilos Radio, Budapest 2023: https://tilos.hu/episode/bangbang/2023/03/05
Colonel Awkward review of Northern Lighthouse Board's A Plague of Shadows:
African Paper review of What Colour is Sound VI: http://africanpaper.com/2022/10/10/what-colour-is-sound-vi-neuer-teil-der-reihe/
Tivoli Radio (Greece) Article
Hell or High Water Interview on Voice FM, with Matt Malone, 2025: https://hellorhighwaterradioshow.bandcamp.com/track/603-michael-plater-exit-keys-the-taps-of-the-holy-trinity-the-right-hand-is-doomed-to-blacken-260825
Terrascope review of The Right Hand is Doomed to Blacken:
https://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Reviews_August25.xhtml#therighthandisdoomedtoblacken
Fighting Boredom review of The Right Hand is Doomed to Blacken;
https://www.fighting-boredom.co.uk/tag/the-right-hand-is-doomed-to-blacken/
Monolith Cocktail review of The Northern Lighthouse Board's "Lost Worlds":
Strange Daze interview and live session, 2024, with Steve Brown and Clare Bligh:
Around the Wireless interview, 2023, with Glenn Williams, Dean Richards, and David Thrussell: