Pimmon
Smudge Another Yesterday
8 Track, LP (2009, Preservation)
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After a decade or so of aural atom smashing as Pimmon, Sydney’s Paul Gough has crafted his darkest and most challenging album yet with Smudge Another Yesterday.
The record opens with the deep, dark of ‘Come On Join The Choir Invisible!’, on which Gough builds a choral wall of ever-shifting tone. This is immediately juxtaposed with the abstract frequencies of ‘Evil Household Ceremony’, an agitated slice of fragmented electronica that again proves why kid606 took such an interest in Gough’s work. ‘It Will Never Snow In Sydney’ is another more ambient piece, with tiny clusters of static floating across an ocean of hollow drones. As the track develops, shards of melody and what may or may not be human voices rise up from the depths.
From here, things continue to get darker with ‘Don’t Remember’, the basis of which is a truly unsettling sample surrounded by flickering splinters of sound. The static-drenched ‘Hidden’ is the kind of piece that headphones were seemingly invented for while ‘Dervieux’ is a chaotic, pulsating glitch-scape. The calm shimmer of ‘Oh Whollsee’ paves the way for quarter-hour closer ‘Some Days Are Tones’, a dense sonic tapestry that seems to be hiding an infinite number of microscopic sound worlds within its fibres.
Oddly, this is Gough’s first proper full-length album for an Australian label. As such, it’s nice to know that he saved his best work (intentionally enough) for such an occasion.
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