Appearing on Editions Mego for the first time,
Taking into Account Only a Portion of Your Emotions is the seventh full-length from sound sculptor
Richard Chartier's
Pinkcourtesyphone moniker. As the title suggests, the album conveys feelings of vague longing rather than the outright heartbreak and devastation of earlier works like
Description of Problem. In some ways, the album seems a little bit lighter and dreamier than other
Pinkcourtesyphone releases, and might be the most comforting one overall. Almost all of the disc's tracks are ten minutes or longer, and they all slowly drift while adding subtle changes. Listen closely and there are reversed bell-like melodies submerged under echo during pieces like "High End Smalls." As usual for
Pinkcourtesyphone, voices pop up at key moments, often at the beginning or end of tracks. An extravagant voice chirps "Yes, it's wonderful" at the beginning of "New Domestic Landscape," and "High End Smalls" ends with the urgent whisper "You're coming with me, leave everything, it's getting late."
Chartier balances eerie, paranoid feelings with lush textures, combining fuzzy, immersive drone with strange rustling and dripping sounds on selections such as "Horizontal Format (For D. Marti)," which sound like they could've been recorded in a cavern. Calm and unhurried,
Taking into Account is shadowy and mysterious, but more welcoming than ominous. ~ Paul Simpson