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BENOIT PIOULARD - Précis
| StylusMagazine | | Précis is a debut album, but it’s hardly the work of a rookie. After self-releasing a wealth of cassettes and CD-Rs, 2005’s Enge EP, and a track on Ghostly International’s Idol Tryouts Two compilation earlier this year, 21-year-old Thomas Meluch’s has built up a healthy discography, even if relatively few people have been privy to it. ...full text |
| | DustedMagazine | | The romance of youth can take many guises, from insouciance to impassioned idealism. Then there’s the idyll of the inwardly sensitive soul; the sad-sweet sound of undefined longing. File 20-year-old Thomas Meluch – who records under the nom de plume Benoit Pioulard – under the latter. On Precis, his mostly excellent Kranky debut, the young songsmith sings in a handsome, low-toned croon over muse-addled songs of nascent heartache....full text |
| | PitchFork | | We're in the middle of a deluge of late-afternoon music: song after song drenched in reverb and echo, inching along at plodding, hot sun tempos, compositions stalked by not-quite-there vocals. It's a universal feeling if geography is any indication. In Northern California, the duo Brightblack Morning Light make music fit for drowning in; in Baltimore, Beach House ply their own hazy trade; and in Chicago, Califone murmur and strum....full text |
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