Richard Chartier's Pinkcourtesyphone project has always traded in a particular kind of emotional claustrophobia, and this 2024 entry pushes that sensibility further into uncomfortable tenderness. The music operates at the threshold of audibility — soft, degraded lounge textures and muffled vocal fragments suspended in long, pressure-heavy drones that feel less composed than overheard. There's an intimacy here that borders on invasive, like finding someone's private recordings left playing in an empty room. Melancholy rendered as interior design.
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