Throughout the album, labyrinthine lyrical reflections are dispersed with dazzling images, blurring scenes in world history with the most personal album by Meluch.
Labyrinthine lyrical reflections are dispersed with dazzling images
The first time I had news from Benoît Pioulard (aka Thomas Meluch) was when I discovered his Yearling album on Morr Music, 2014—a project in collaboration with Rafael Anton Irisarri known as Orcas. After a tremendous journey of ethereal pop, I saw him covering an Aphex Twin track from Selected Ambient Works Volume II, and now his next release has fallen into my inbox; an indie-acoustic document titled Eidetic. This extensive 17-piece voyage has the color of Spring flowers, the ardor of nostalgia, and some familiar groups for those who understand the coordinates: Belle and Sebastian, Acid House Kings, and Mojave 3.
Meluch configures the title track; a word that denotes the ability to remember mental images with extraordinarily rich precision, and a work that relates to the unwavering mortality of the universe and, as he says, “the ways in which it has modified and improved my relationships, especially with the family.” Throughout the album, labyrinthine lyrical reflections are dispersed with dazzling images, blurring scenes in world history with the most personal album by Meluch.
Eidetic is available on Morr Music. [Bandcamp]
