Temper is an album by Benoit Pioulard, released in 2008. The album is a experimental CD. -
Assembling various analog sources on basic software at home, Pioulard has honed his craft into a form that suggests something far grander. With soft-edged vocals and a broad palette of instruments that lately includes harmonium and cello, he constructs diverse arrangements that skirt the borders of pop with beautiful, detailed atmospheres. The scope and sonic narratives of songs like "A Woolgathering Exodus" and "Golden Grin" exhibit new degrees of musicality, while the weightlessness of "Brown Bess" or "Sweep Generator" reflects the unrestrained context in which the record was produced.
And yet, the music is nothing short of amazing when done right. The title of Benoit Pioulard's (real name Thomas Meluch) sophomore effort is similarly...
Daniel Levin Becker - 09/Oct/2008
Although his lyrics are inaudible verbosities and his name is a pseudonym and he goes about the whole business in a fancifully gallicized way that?s p...
Joe Davenport - 19/Sep/2008
In 2006, Thomas Meluch released his first full-length, Précis, under the nome de plume Benoît Pioulard. I still don't know why Meluch felt the need to...
cj - 16/Dec/2008
Thomas Meluch ist Benoit Pioulard. Beide zeigen sich akademisch geschult inspiriert von mittelalterlicher Astrologie, neorealistischen italienischen F...