Album Review: Pikelet - Tronc

Pikelet returns with a percolating synth kaleidoscope of a record, finding the base emotions and esoteric synthesis in her compositions that fellow travellers Scraps or Primitive Motion tend to mine.

Gone are the more percussive diversions of recent outings, and in their place we have the weird pop permutation of Interface Dystopia, the jewellery-box romanticism of Trish, the fusing of Tortoise tapestries and astral ampoule that is One Structure Also Many and the skittish Casio-and-clatter ambience of Mess Works Better. Tronc is a deceptively robust album of experimentation and invention, a bathysphere of kaleidoscopic exploration.