Hymnal - Benoît Pioulard
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  • Summary: Thomas Meluch's latest release as Benoît Pioulard was inspired by religious iconography and cathedrals in Europe.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Mar 5, 2013
    80
    Hymnal's serene beauty may make it his most sublime music yet.
  2. Apr 5, 2013
    80
    The effect of these new elements is to bring a new solemnity and calm to Pioulard's already gentle brand of blissed out songwriting. [Mar 2013, p.62]
  3. Mar 5, 2013
    80
    On Hymnal, Benoît Pioulard has succeeded in creating something rich and rewarding.
  4. Mar 15, 2013
    60
    The instrumentals, which mix grainy field recordings with more forthright electronic melodies, assert a strong presence, but not enough to rescue Hymnal from a state of irresolute inbetween-ness. [No. 96, p.58]

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