With titles like "Submerge" and "An Alternate World Away", it comes as no surprise that Montréal's Pinkville makes the kind of immersive, delicately-detailed, soundscapes that no doubt routinely prompt listeners to say, 'You should totally think about doing soundtracks'. He's also one of the rare musicians who acts on such advice, creating videos to accompany his tracks out of slowly cross-fading still images.
The clouded skies, barren trees and minimalist snow shots of the "Psychic Winter" video reinforce the music's thawing SAD narrative and the distinctly Canadian '-scape' of its sound. It also informs a video-less track like "Alif" - which, with its inter-weaving of woozy low-end drones, radio static and faint urban field recordings, sounds like Brian Eno and William Basinski on the road - by giving it a specific geographical location from which your imagination can take flight.
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