Pem

Multidisciplinary artist, songwriter and gardener Pem’s practice blends the organic and the stylised. Earthy yet elusive songwriting is paired with analogue crackles, synth and string based sound design and field recordings. Psychology, choreography and myth-making form as much of the Pem musical landscape as the music itself, which at its core, is a kind of ethereal alt-balladry, drawing on soul and folk influences. But where the raw form of singer-songwriter compositions — guitar or piano and voice — form the bedrock of her work, Pem’s hauntingly rare vocal technique — a precise, hypnotic tremolo — points towards something more esoteric, uncanny even.