Pregnant brings pop collage to the Cleaners

Daniel Trudeau captures life’s inevitable fractures and fluctuations that come to pass in a decade’s time.

Photo credit: Brynley Stoner

Last year, California-native Daniel Trudeau’s Pregnant passed the ten-year mark, and the project’s prolific output captures life’s inevitable fractures and fluctuations that come to pass in a decade’s time. Pregnant’s sound is difficult to categorize, as every release shows off varying palates of midi flutters, splintered synths, and chopped drums. Trudeau’s fragile lyricism threads throughout his genre-swapping sound, providing the only constant among the kaleidoscopic collection of samples.

Pregnant is currently in the final throes of its ambitious “Your Song” project, where in exchange for a few dollars Trudeau and his collaborators crafted a song for each person who donated. After ten volumes and only a few years, the project reached its hundredth song this year, followed by a tape, titled Your Song, on Death Records. Narrator member Nathan Springer also released four tapes compiling 35 of Your Song’s tracks on his Staring at the Ceiling label.  

Trudeau’s vivid pop pastiche comes to the Cleaners tonight (Sat., Jan. 2) with its current lineup featuring Styles Munson on guitar/keys and Sean Hayashi on bass.


Pregnant with Suffer Dragon, Clothes, and Narrator. $5. 9 pm. 1714 Jonesboro Road S.E.