Pem
Cloud Work
Far Out Magazine 100点満点
There are some voices that silence a room or silence the room inside you, so, for a few moments, there is nothing but listening. All the voices in your head shut up as if hushing to a respectful quiet for the beauty floating in through your ears. Pem has one of those voices, and when paired with lyrics that more than match up to the standard, Cloud Work becomes one of the most stunning releases of the year so far.
It’s a voice that feels hard to define or pin down. It’s soft and angelic but pushed through with a clear power. It’s then coloured with this incredible quiver that seems to punctuate every emotion, grounding it into something visceral while still remaining utterly ethereal. It’s the sort of voice that could sing an alphabetised shopping list and still sound hypnotic by the time you got down to Zoflora.
But the beauty of Pem’s voice is only the surface of the project. Her vocals dance over her words like light on an ocean: moving, glimmering, and beautiful, but with miles more below and miles of big sky rumination above. The intimacy of the EP then feels like a living thing, like Pem attempting to grapple with the huge scale of grief and the various crashing waves, storming clouds, or blue skies of love and loss. As it exists as little more than simply her voice, pianos and guitars, there’s a sense of the artist standing alone amidst the forces of these feelings, trying to capture small details for a sense of control.
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