Richard Chartier's Pinkcourtesyphone project operates in a world of smudged memory and soft dissolution, and Sentimental Something is one of its most characteristic expressions. The album draws from a palette of degraded lounge textures, muffled voices, and low-frequency hum — sounds that could have been retrieved from recordings left in a drawer. There's a persistent sense of emotional residue here, affect without narrative, nostalgia detached from any specific source. The voices stay muffled enough that you can hear their presence without quite making out what they have to tell you.
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