Benoît Pioulard – Sonnet (2015)    


Review:
American singer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Meluch, better known as Benoît Pioulard, creates creates folk-indebted electronic soundscapes, incorporating field recordings and various elements of rock and pop music. Pioulard signed to Chicago’s Kranky imprint in 2006, and since then he has released four albums for the label, which is also home to Grouper and Tim Hecker. Kranky have today unveiled a fifth album from Pioulard, due to be released in March. A press release compares the LP to ’70s Krautrock, describing it as “lush and verdant”. “A few pieces had lyrics and vocal parts that I ultimately removed; at a certain point the album became an exercise in restraint, so I strove to leave only what I felt absolutely essential,” Pioulard said, adding, “Unlike most of my previous recordings, there are no digital / software after-effects on the album; all sounds are from analog tape and / or my few guitar pedals.” — factmag


   


Track List:
01 - With No Advantage
02 - The Gilded Fear That Guides the Flow
03 - Of Everything That Rhymes
04 - Is in Its Clearest Form
05 - An Image Apart from Ourselves
06 - Whose Palms Create
07 - As Would a Weaver
08 - A Shade of Celadon
09 - So Etched in Memory
10 - Under the Break Arch
11 - That Wounded Weathered
12 - Shut-Ins on Sunday See
13 - The Very Edge of Its Flame
14 - And Relent


Media Report:
Genre: electronic
Origin: Brooklyn, New York, USA  
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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