{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Substatic | type = album | artist = Peter Jefferies | cover = Peter Jefferies - Substatic.jpg | alt = | released = September 29, 1998 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Post-rock | length = 40:00 | label = Emperor Jones | producer = Michael Hill | prev_title = Elevator Madness | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = Closed Circuit | next_year = 2001 }}
'''''Substatic''''' is the fourth solo album by New Zealand composer Peter Jefferies, released on September 29, 1998 through Emperor Jones. One of his most musically ambitious and emotionally complex efforts, it marks Jefferies' return to the completely instrumental format he had previously explored on his 1987 album ''At Swim 2 Birds''.<ref name="emperorjones">{{cite web |url=http://www.emperorjones.com/jefferies.html |title=Peter Jefferies: Substatic |publisher=Emperor Jones |accessdate=October 25, 2012}}</ref>
== Composition == ''Substatic'' is known to be one of Jefferies' most experimental and musically adventurous recordings. The album comprises five pieces of music, including a lengthy seventeen-minute suite titled "Three Movements". The compositions are based around repetitious rhythms created by Jefferies' pianodrum, a combination of a keyboard and the snare and bass drum sections of a drum set, and are partially improvised.<ref name="radiointerview">{{cite web |url=http://www.reocities.com/zaaz813/jefferies.html |title=Electricity: Peter Jefferies on Peter Jefferies |publisher=reocities.com |date=February 1998 |accessdate=October 25, 2012}}</ref>
The use of sampling is prominently used as part of the composition of ''Substatic''. The piece "Index" includes sampled vocals of Jean Smith of Mecca Normal, taken from a 1995 live performance.<ref name="allmusic"/> "Damage" features audience noise which was recorded by Bruce Russell during a live performance. A digeridoo played by Alicia Aaparros Duran can be heard on the album's final track, "Three Movements".<ref name="cdnotes">{{cite AV media notes |title=Substatic |title-link=Substatic |others=Peter Jefferies |year=1998 |type=booklet |publisher=Emperor Jones |location=Austin, Texas}}</ref>
== Reception == {{Album ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Ned |last=Raggett |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r376946|pure_url=yes}}|title=Substatic |website=Allmusic |accessdate=October 25, 2012}}</ref> }}
Joe Garden of ''The A.V. Club'' was also enthusiastic in his review of the album, saying that the music covers "a wide breadth of emotions" and is "highly charged, mostly toward the negative end of the emotional spectrum."<ref name="avclubreview">{{cite news |first=Joe |last=Garden |url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/peter-jefferies-substatic,20930/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130117153253/http://www.avclub.com/articles/peter-jefferies-substatic,20930/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 January 2013 |title=Peter Jefferies: Substatic |newspaper=The A.V. Club |date=March 29, 2002 |accessdate=October 25, 2012}}</ref> Ned Raggett of allmusic gave it three out of five stars and called it a "striking, varied album" with "intentionally and beautifully murky production."<ref name="allmusic"/>
== Track listing == {{tracklist | all_music = Peter Jefferies, except "Three Movements" co-written by Michael Hill and Anita Galitis-Anker | title1 = Index | length1 = 7:36 | title2 = Signal | length2 = 6:37 | title3 = Damage | length3 = 5:50 | title4 = Kitty Loop | length4 = 3:51 | title5 = Three Movements | length5 = 16:06 }}
== Personnel == *Anita Galitis-Anker – gong on "Index", bells on "Damage", flute and synthesizer on "Three Movements" *Michael Hill – production, bass guitar on "Index", "Kitty Loop" and "Three Movements", acoustic guitar on "Index" and "Three Movements", electric guitar on "Three Movements" *Peter Jefferies – electric piano, grand piano, keyboards, drums, electric guitar, bass guitar
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