Los Angeles, a city of mirrors, twinkling lights, noir history, and deep secrets is the new home for Pinkcourtesyphone. This third full album explores Hollywood dreams and deception… meant to be slowly sipped. We all pretend but in Hollywood pretending is its dark sustenance… a plastic organic unity ready to enfold and repackage you.
Pinkcourtesyphone
A Ravishment of Mirror
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- Duration:
- 49:00
- Format:
- CD, Digital, Streaming
- Edition:
- 500
- Release Date:
- February 11, 2014
- Cover:
Richard Chartier
- Track Listing:
- Why Pretend / The Desire of Absence / Faulty Connections
- Pixels… Sometimes… Broke Your Heart (for A.)
- Falling Star (for P. Entwistle)
- 62,000 Valentines (for T. Hunter)
- Purchase:
- Bandcamp
- Listen:
- Apple Music
Press:
December 31, 2014
Cooltura, Hawái, Headphone Commute, Alan Lockett & Sounds of a Tired City.
December 12, 2014
…[the album] is imbued with careful construction and attention to detail and, like all his work, demands a listen.
May 30, 2014
The atmospheres are misty and mellifluous, somehow kinematic: winces, lyrical passages and deceptive shadows are suspended between unreal melodies and repeated passages, transformed into granular blends and inner elaborations.
May 26, 2014
Des portes qui claquent sur deux notes de synthé, des voix synthétiques qui en appellent à la gloire, des beats électriques et des inserts de field recordings… toutes les prétentions et les désillusions dont Chartier s’inspire illuminent l’un et l’autre côté de ses partitions-miroirs. Une fois de plus, impossible de ne pas suivre Chartier.
May 1, 2014
It’s all damn beautiful in this temporal dilation, vocal ghosts and lengthy reverberations muzzling percussive patterns, endless distortion and dizzying see-saw lullabies.
March 30, 2014
…between the nothingness and eternity of elegiac beauty and toxic abyss, Chartier finds an elegant balance of surface blithe spirit and self-conscious noir-ish undertow for one of his least oblique strategies and most expressive works.
March 23, 2014
…this might be one of Chartier’s most personal statements – it’s certainly one of his finest hours.
March 16, 2014
Your imagination is going to get highly stimulated by following glasses of cinematic laudanum…
March 3, 2014
Pinkcourtesyphone joue avec les durées, les rythmes, et étire ses morceaux pour effacer tout repère chronologique. Un scénario où l’on roulerait de nuit, tous feux éteints, sur des perspectives hallucinées à la fois rassurantes et anxiogènes, familières et inexplorées.
March 1, 2014
…a controlled ebb-and-flow of whirring sounds, sea-sawing tones, whooshes, exhalations, and muffled detonations—a dream-like, industrial-glam drift of noir-like murmurs that, oddly, evokes feelings of loneliness, yearning, and desire.
February 1, 2014
“Drifting in outerspace, the solar phone is ringing, static transmissions from afar… Please Pick Up…”. La miseria del lujo filtrada …
January 31, 2014
…elusive chamber harmonics tease from behind ambient tones reminding of AFX’s SAW II set.
January 30, 2014
Volvemos a encontrarnos con Richard Chartier bajo el manto que arropa su vertiente más pop como Pinkcourtesyphone en la tercera …
January 29, 2014
A Ravishment of Mirror ouvre sur quelques poussiéreuses notes de musique orchestrale — qu’on croirait tirées d’un disque de Leyland Kirby, avant de les noyer dans une obscurité sans fin. Là où Kirby questionne le temps et son impact sur la beauté, Chartier approfondit : une fois la beauté disparue, que reste-t-il?