Pleasure Systems
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Though the work of Pleasure Systems, the songwriting project of New York-based musician Clarke Sondermann, encompasses a wide range of sounds and styles, it always “maintains an intimacy that feels like stumbling upon a letter you weren’t meant to read" (The Alternative). 2021’s full length Visiting The Well was a bracing, often devastating document of grief following the death of a partner. The newest single “Everything I Need” finds Pleasure Systems in surprisingly calm and buoyant territory. Guided by an approach Sondermann refers to as “cautious optimism,” the upcoming Pleasure Systems material puts equal weight on the joyous parts of life as it does the painful. “Merry Christmas” is out now. Photography by Rachel Coster.
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