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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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| I reviewed an LP Pregnant put out on Life’s Blood a few years back, and it was of quality, and many hearts were broken and minds molded. Now, in the Year of Our Lord of LP Liberty 2013 we have another album-length statement coming on Mush Records. That is the well from which the below-track sluices. “Strangers” is far superior to anything preceding it, to the point where I wonder if this is even the same band. Not a trace of what I remember … This is where Here Comes the Indian and solo Zach Hill (the stuff he sings on) converge and become almost violently likeable. I remember Zac Nelson hitching his wagon to close-by stars as well. If I stumbled upon MP3s like this every day life would be a whooooole lot sweeter. - Gumshoe Grove |
