Psychedelica is long thought to be that transcendental, spiritual, burning man sort of deal. Yet what Pregnant do on Pottery Mill is pull together the spiritual and the grounded, developing a psych sound that drags you down into a strange, seamlessly looping world. The album is chaotic yet entirely fixed and stable. Each track bubbles over with a constant level of unrestrained energy - whether it be the opening track "Curtain," with its sill, meandering, and imaginative looping, or "Palm," featuring a strange collection of looping synths and clean guitar lines.
Daniel Trudeau's voice melds perfectly with the dozens of loops on the album. It's smooth and continuous, interspersed with samples of nature field recordings and cold, pulsating synths. Everything has its place, and nothing seems out of order or uncertain. In any case, what exactly is Pregnant’s Pottery Mill anyway?
Is Pregnant's Pottery Mill folktronic? Sure. Glitch? That too. Like an absolute aural journey, diving into the waters of mental clarity with "Given," and melting into the marvelous summer sun with "Grass In the Meadow"? Oh yes. Sure, the majority of the time the lyrics are indecipherable, and you’re left to the song title to lead you in the correct direction. But that’s ok! Trudeau’s voice is an instrument all its own, and while instruments can speak it’s not often you understand all they’re saying. In that sense, Trudeau’s voice adds an exceptionally idiosyncratic and unusual feature to an already unusual album.
In some sense, Pottery Mill is a callback to early psych. Psychedelica: long thought to be that transcendental, spiritual, burning man sort of deal. Yet what Pregnant do on Pottery Mill is pull together the spiritual and the grounded, developing a psych sound that drags you down into a strange seamlessly looping world. The album is chaotic yet entirely fixed and stable. Each track bubbles over with a constant level of unrestrained energy - whether it be the opening track "Curtain," with its sill, meandering, and imaginative harmonies, or "Palm," featuring a strange collection of looping synths and clean guitar lines. - In Your Speakers |
