Pinkcourtesyphone, the moniker of Los Angeles-based electronic artist Richard Chartier, first emerged around 2012 as a divergent stream of Chartier’s minimalist soundscapes and glacial electronic slipstreams with a more emotional vein. After already releasing an impressive stream of records with the prime labels that dabble in that sound (Touch, Room40, Important, et al.), Pinkcourtesyphone has just announced a new album that will be released November 25 via Editions Mego.
Taking Into Account Only a Portion of Your Emotions is described as “a new coded message of sumptuous distant drones and glacial orchestral heartrendings,” which is “Poised and polished slow motion pulsations tug at your emotions (but only a portion of them).”
You can head over to the Editions Mego site now and pre-order your copy. Or set aside nine minutes of your life to sample the shortest track from the album (and therefore default “single”) “Reference Point Intermission 1,” followed by a SoundCloud exclusive stream for “High End Smalls.”
Taking Into Account Only a Portion of Your Emotions tracklist:
01. New Domestic Landscape
02. Reference Point Intermission 1
03. High End Smalls
04. Reference Point Intermission 2
05. Horizontal Format (for D. Marti)
06. Schlaflied (für PvK)