The Pranatricks Trilogy Reaches Its Final Form
A three-album vision years in the making finally comes into focus with Infiniteness.
By Glenn Alderson
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“I do want people to come in and relax, and then I want them to find what’s important and act upon it,” he said at the time. “For me it’s higher virtues: peace, love, joy and compassion.”
What he didn’t yet fully reveal was just how expansive that vision would become. With the release of Infiniteness, Pranatricks completes a three-album arc that began with Cherished (2023) and deepened with Elements of (2024). This is a project Clements long envisioned as a triptych, each record standing alone while contributing to a larger whole.
“Yes indeed the accretive sequence of Cherished Elements of Infiniteness is now complete,” Clements tells RANGE now. “That was always the plan; three albums in three years.”
Across those releases, the evolution is tangible. Cherished introduced a softer, acoustic introspection. Elements of pushed outward, embracing fuller, more psychedelic textures while digging deeper into questions of self-understanding and confronting the parts of ourselves we tend to avoid.
Now, Infiniteness widens the lens entirely. Like its predecessor, the album pulls from fragments of Clements’ past—old recordings, ideas carried across years, reshaped through a present-day perspective. But where Elements of sought to reconcile those fragments, Infiniteness leans into something more expansive, less resolved.
“The beginning or the end?” he asks. “That has always been my ethos for creating music—perhaps we were never born and will never die? Where does it come from?”
If the trilogy began as an invitation to reflect, it ends in that same open space, with less a conclusion than a release from the need for one. “The purpose of finality is to remain unattached to the outcome,” Clements says. “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.”
And while Infiniteness may mark the completion of Pranatricks as it was conceived, Clements isn’t treating it as a full stop.
“Beyond the esoteric, I do wish to focus on my family and start some new projects,” he says. “However Infiniteness can essentially go on forever so we will see…”
For now, the project moves from record to stage. Clements will be announcing a run of shows across Alberta and British Columbia in the coming weeks, including a stop at East Town Get Down in Calgary on Saturday, May 23.
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