Sense Field

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Sense Field
General information
origin Los Angeles , California , United States
Genre (s) Alternative rock , emo
founding 1990
resolution 2004
Last occupation
Jonathan Bunch († 2016)
Chris Evenson
Electric guitar
 Rodney Sellars
John Stockberger
Rob Pfeiffer
former members
Drums
 Scott McPherson

Sense Field was an American alternative rock and emo band from Los Angeles , California that was formed in 1990 and split in 2004.

history

The band emerged from the disintegration of various groups, was formed in 1990 and consisted of singer Jonathan Bunch, guitarists Chris Evenson and Rodney Sellars, bassist John Stockberger and drummer Scott McPherson. Bunch and Evenson already knew each other from school. Together with Sellars they had previously been active in the group Reason to Believe. This band had been expanded with the addition of Stockberger and McPherson, which led to the formation of Sense Field. The following year a self-titled EP was released on the band's own label Run H2O Records. Revelation Records became aware of them through the EP and the group's permanent live activity . The 1993 EP Premonitions was initially distributed through this , before the label released the debut album Killed for Less the following year . After the first national and international tours, the second album, Building , followed in 1996 . Then it went on tour with Mighty Mighty Bosstones . In 1999, the drummer McPherson left the line-up, whereupon Rob Pfeiffer joined as a replacement. Further EPs, singles and split releases appeared by the end of the 1990s . In 1999 a self-titled album was also released. In the summer of 2001, the fourth album Tonight and Forever followed at Nettwerk America . The long release period between this and the previous album can be explained by the collaboration with Warner Bros. Records . The label had initially re-released Building , which had led to Sense Field signing a contract to release more albums. However, the label no longer took care of the release of an album. The band then looked for a new label while they continued to work on the written material and then re-recorded in Chris Evanson's recording studio. To promote the album, Sense Field went on tour the following summer. During this time, Sellars' daughter got into a car accident, which left her seriously injured and in a coma, which put Sellars on hold for the time being. The remaining members continued with the band and wrote a fifth album, which was released in July 2003 under the name Living Outside . Save Yourself was released as a single . The song is also part of the soundtrack for the television series Roswell . The album was produced by Brad Wood . After the tours on which the album was presented live ended, the group broke up in January 2004. Eight years after the dissolution, the members briefly got together again to hold concerts to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Revelation Records. On February 1, 2016 Jonathan Bunch committed in Irvine , California, at the age of 45 years suicide . In their career, the band had also performed with Texas Is Reason and went on a national tour with Jimmy Eat World and Mineral .

style

Christian Graf placed the band in his nu-metal and crossover lexicon the emocore and alternative rock to. Bunch and Evenson would share a common love for Dischord . Killed for Less is called Melodic Hardcore . Tonight and Forever offers a versatile mixture of alternative pop , new rock and a few emocore elements. Zach Curd from Allmusic assigned Killed for Less to the emocore, whereby the group succeeded in creating music that contained an emotional and understandable message. She knows how to play with dynamics. According to Uwe “Buffo” Schnädelbach from Rock Hard , the band plays on Building Alternative Rock, which has been enriched with punk and some pop music . The music can be classified between Hüsker Dü and For Love Not Lisa . The 13 songs are quite varied, but they have a very short total playing time of only around 35 minutes. Joachim Hiller from Ox-Fanzine wrote in his review of Tonight and Forever that the album follows Building in terms of song structure . The music is now quieter and the hardcore punk influences have been reduced even further, instead there are mostly "anthemic, melancholy pop songs". He also described the music as pop rock , which is "sometimes almost embarrassingly cheesy and sweet", but which is saved by "Jonathan Bunch's succinct vocals and two guitars that are often more powerful". Influences from Jimmy Eat World and U2 can be heard in the songs . In the same issue, Mirko Gläser interviewed Chris Evenson. The latter stated that the band has "a love for distorted guitars that dances over the one acoustic guitar". What is new on the album, however, are the electronic elements and samples that have been used to try to make the album sound more modern. He rejected a classification in the emo genre, instead he pointed to his punk origins. Scott Heisel from punknews.org found Living Outside sounding very commercial and said that the songs could also serve as background music for the TV series The Real World . On the album, the group remains true to the emo elements, the release is suitable for fans of Jimmy Eat Worlds Clarity .

Discography

  • 1991: Sense Field (EP, Run H2O Records)
  • 1993: Premonitions (EP, Run H2O Records)
  • 1994: Killed for Less (album, Revelation Records )
  • 1994: Sense Field (compilation, Revelation Records)
  • 1995: Papercut (EP, Revelation Records)
  • 1996: Building (Album, Revelation Records)
  • 1996: Overstand / Shady Day (single, Regal Records )
  • 1996: Building Foundation (EP, Revelation Records)
  • 1996: Different Times (Single, Regal Records)
  • 1997: Mineral / Jimmy Eat World / Sense Field (split with Jimmy Eat World and Mineral , Crank! Records )
  • 1997: Sense Field / Farside (split with Farside , Revelation Records)
  • 1999: Part of the Deal (EP, GrapeOS Records )
  • 2000: Sense Field / Onelinedrawing (Split with Onelinedrawing , CI Records )
  • 2000: Under the Radar (EP, Warner Bros. Records )
  • 2001: Tonight and Forever (album, Nettwerk America )
  • 2001: Fun Never Ends (EP, Nettwerk America)
  • 2001: Beautiful, Beautiful (Single, CI Records)
  • 2001: Save Yourself (single, Nettwerk America)
  • 2003: I Refuse (Single, Nettwerk America)
  • 2003: On Your Own (single, Nettwerk America / CI Records)
  • 2003: Living Outside (album, Nettwerk America)
  • 2004: The Musings Of (split with Running from Dharma , CI Records)
  • 2004: To End a Letter (compilation, Daymare Recordings )
  • 2016: Jon Bunch Benefit Collection (compilation, Revelation Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Heather Phares: Sense Field. Allmusic , accessed April 5, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b c d Christian Graf: Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon . Lexikon Imprint Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89602-515-5 , p. 251 f .
  3. ^ Sense Field - Sense Field. Discogs , accessed April 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Mirko glasses: SENSE FIELD . Happy ending in the field of the senses. In: Ox-Fanzine . 47, June / July / August, 2002 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed April 14, 2018]).
  5. ↑ David Rolland: Further Seems Forever Singer Jon Bunch's Death Ruled a Suicide. browardpalmbeach.com, accessed April 5, 2018 .
  6. ^ A b Scott Heisel: Sense Field. Living Outside (2003). punknews.org, accessed April 14, 2018 .
  7. ^ Zach Curd: Sense Field. Killed for Less. Allmusic, accessed April 14, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Uwe "Buffo" Schnädelbach: Sense Field . Building. In: Rock Hard . No. 113 , October 1996.
  9. ↑ Joachim Hiller: SENSE FIELD . Tonight And Forever CD. In: Ox-Fanzine . 47, June / July / August, 2002 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed April 14, 2018]).