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MH-287 Pregnant - Pottery Mill  Pregnant returns with Pottery Mill, a masterful fifteen track full-length that revels in genre-bending and sonic risk-taking. The voice of Daniel Trudeau defines the Pregnant sound. Vocals that reminds of a spaced-out Neil Young, stuttering glitch-hop beats, and psychedelic instrumentation built around looped guitars and keyed instruments are present throughout the album. Life in Northern California's Sierra Nevada Foothills once again drives the songwriting, as themes of nature, isolation, disintegrating relationships and struggle fight their way through the figurative songwriting's ambiguity and abstraction. Daniel's brother, Matthew Trudeau has been adding his support to Pregnant's live show as of late, and shows up quite seamlessly on many of the Pottery Mill tracks. The album's freewheeling production, abstract lyrics, and fearless audio collage are both captivating and addictive. Pottery Mill is Pregnant's most cohesive statement to date. |
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| His abstract pop songs are built on layers of nuanced guitar fragments and stuttering hip hop rhythms and his tightly looped performances are nothing short of transcendent - Portals / Your sonic voyage awaits ... from the album Pottery Mill - Spacelab / a curious musical tapestry - Delusions of Adequacy / In some sense, Pottery Mill is a callback to early psych - In Your Speakers |
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| After all yesterday’s procrasturbation about applying the old and new; and splicing the loose and the rigid, here’s a band that glace at those concepts and run with them, wildly laughing at their carefree Pregnant shovel their sounds, influences and ideas onto their songs all at once. As always, it oughtn’t work, but does. Shuffling, hesitating (see headline for application of the obvious pun) and lolloping with abandon, Strangers is outrageously sun-filled, lazy and vague. And yet it’s whip-smart, razor-sharp and as brief as it needs to be. This is a terrific song in every way, harking back to a time when distorted, reedy vocals were the norm, and punching into a future of borderline-out-of-control pop songs, where noises swirl into one kaleidoscopic, reckless, glorious mess. - A New Band A Day |
