[PCMS 2024.6] Ʌerʘ – ±vMcÇ (2024) – Album Review

Album: [PCMS 2024.6] Ʌerʘ

Artist: ±vMcÇ

Release Date: December 6, 2024

As I get older, I realize that humanity is filled with extra terrestrials or genetic variants of extra terrestrials. They walk among us and we don’t see them because why would we? Why is a soap bubble round? The shape of the human body is just the most efficient way to exist in this plane. Some of us don’t know we’re aliens, so we’re drawn to what they crate. ±vMcÇ‘s album “[PCMS 2024.6] Ʌerʘ” is evidence that I have found another extra terrestrial.

Ʌerʘ lands without preamble – it just is. The tracks bend time into those fun four dimensional loops and corners that turn back into the place you start. A good amount of pressure rises in your skull, and the rhythm speaks before language catches it. The album commits from the first second and keeps its grip across eight brutal, tightly-calibrated tracks. The sequencing feels engineered to compliment while standing alone. Every track serves the next. The sequencing and production in ◉∠∢△ (Track 6) is absolutely insane. It sounds like someone set up an omnidirectional microphone in an abandoned building and we’re listening to some kind of tinkering of a machine by an entity. The production puts you inside the room with it, or maybe inside it altogether – wires brushing your skin, blinking lights behind you.

The whole album’s sound design leans heavy into slightly syncopated jolts, IDM micro-structures, and percussion that’s been modulated, restructured/refitted into something clean. The album liner notes read that, “outer space has sent another musical talent in the form of ±vMcÇ.” It reminds me of what I heard in a dream once: if someone tells you they’re from outer space, believe them.

This is an insane album. Give it a listen.