Pem - other ways of landing EP

Bristol-based multidisciplinary artist Pem is both a songwriter and working gardener, and you can hear it: field recordings, analogue crackles, soft synth glow and a voice with a hypnotic tremble that sounds like it's vibrating on purpose. Her new EP, 'other ways of landing', is properly ethereal and genuinely engaging - a few tracks deep you start to realise you've been holding your breath a bit, and by the end you're happily floating around the room like a mildly haunted pollen grain.

Nature isn't just a theme here; it's basically a co-producer. The title-track opens the EP with that specific Pem magic trick: everything feels intimate and huge at the same time. 'm4 windy' is the obvious nature-flex, full of wind and leaf-rustle textures that make the song feel alive.

There's an evergreen quality across the whole thing, too: fresh but not flimsy, charming but not twee. 'To earth will you tell me when we land' reaches for something grand, all slow-blooming drama. '(easily) moved' is quietly devastating in the way only a good Pem song can be: minimal gestures, maximum emotional payoff. And then 'milk, blue' closes things out with a soft-focus calm.

The EP's big achievement is how likeable it is without trying to be. It's lush, atmospheric and comforting: music that makes you want to go outside, stare at a tree and text someone you miss (but, like, in lowercase). Pem's 'other ways of landing' is a gorgeous little world to step into, and it sticks around long after you've hit stop.