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- Record Label: Kranky
- Release Date: Oct 14, 2016
- Summary: This is the sixth full-length release on the Kranky label for Thomas Meluch as Benoît Pioulard.
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- Record Label: Kranky
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Dec 22, 2016Adding the clarity of experience to his early work's atmospheric conciseness only makes The Benoît Pioulard Listening Matter all the richer.
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Dec 6, 2016A baker’s dozen of future-past pop songs etched onto water-warped tape that average in length somewhere in the two-minute range. Contradictions being key to the album’s balance, it is only natural that Listening Matter’s greatest moment of levity comes wrapped in cataclysm.
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Dec 6, 2016Pretty much everything else in Meluch’s body of work can fit somewhere between this LP and Sonnet, but surprisingly these two disparate poles are unified as the best work of his career.
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Dec 6, 2016Surrounded by ambient hiss and faint female backing vocals, The Benoît Pioulard Listening Matter shows Pioulard expressing emotion through simple but intensely personal songwriting.
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The WireDec 21, 2016This is liminal pop music for sure, with Pioulard’s bedroom-recorded mixture of field recordings, dubbing tape experiments, ringing acoustic guitars, glockenspiel and murmuring vocals creating cloudlike, ephemeral textures. [Dec 2016, p.67]
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MojoDec 6, 2016A bruised, heartsore set. [Jan 2017, p.104]
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