Project Pitchfork’s ‘Look Up, I’m Down There’ turns 10 on 28 October
German dark wave band Project Pitchfork released “Look Up, I’m Down There” on 28 October 2016 through Trisol Music Group, marking the band’s 25th anniversary. The album turns 10 this year.
Project Pitchfork released “Look Up, I’m Down There” in two editions: a standard single CD and a limited double-CD art book edition featuring complete lyrics alongside a short story by fantasy author Björn Springorum. The standard edition runs twelve tracks: “Into Orbit,” “Titânes,” “Propaganda Child,” “Blind Eye,” “Pandora,” “Look Up, I’m Down There,” “Volcano,” “Sunset Devastation,” “Open with Caution,” “Furious Numbers,” “Exile” and “Sky Eye,” with the limited edition’s bonus disc adding the exclusive track “Pendulum” alongside remixes of “What Have We Done,” “Titânes,” “Volcano,” “Exile” and “Pandora.”
About Project Pitchfork
Project Pitchfork formed in Hamburg in 1989 around Peter Spilles and Dirk Scheuber, who picked the project’s name at random from a dictionary. The band gave its first live performance in February 1990 and released its debut album, “Dhyani,” in May 1991, followed by “Lam-‘Bras” (1992) and “Entities” (1992). After moving to the Off Beat label for “IO” (1994), the band’s first charting release in Germany, Project Pitchfork founded its own label, Candyland Entertainment, in 1995, through which it released “Alpha Omega” that year and “¡Chakra:Red!” in 1997, the first record to include Jürgen Jansen as a permanent member.
Signing to the EastWest major-label imprint brought “Eon:Eon” (1998) and made Project Pitchfork the first gothic industrial band to receive German music-TV airplay. The band built its own studio between albums before releasing “Daimonion” (2001) and the “NUN” concept trilogy (2002), then moved to the Trisol label by 2011, the year it released “Quantum Mechanics.” Further albums “Black” (2013) and “Blood” (2014) followed, and Side-Line reviewed the band’s career-spanning “Second Anthology” compilation in April 2016, months before “Look Up, I’m Down There” arrived that October to mark the band’s 25th year. Project Pitchfork went on to release the “Akkretion” (2018) and “Fragment” (2018) albums, continuing with reissue campaigns and 2024’s “Elysium,” the final instalment of a trilogy begun with “Akkretion.” “Look Up, I’m Down There,” the record that marked a quarter-century of the band, turns 10 this October.
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