Laurent Perrier’s third album as Pylône comprises two eighteen-minute works wholly built from modular synthesizers and channeling what feels like quite a purist, bordering on ‘retro’ approach to electroacoustic experimental synth work.

“A Jamais”, the more intriguing of the two pieces, plays with sampled spoken-word reading from Lyne Vernes which gets twisted and reprocessed into a broad spread of sonic effects that bear the character of the words long after the syllables have gone. Some of the hollow and simpler parts seem to resemble Alvin Lucier’s “I am sitting in a room”, but it frequently twists into more manic, weirder, backwards-reverb-heavy oddness- Lucier on hallucinogens, if you like.

“Ping” is similarly derived from a single source, this time an Epoch Modular twinpeak filter, which undergoes a not dissimilar set of treatments, that this time is a little more insular and modest. It’s a detailed little exercise in sonic manipulation that doesn’t pull off any magic tricks nor command your attention, resulting in sonic art you can appreciate but not revel in.

It’s a focussed and well-handled couple of audio works with a refreshingly simple ethos.