Sonnet

Released by kranky, ltd. as krank193 on March 30, 2015

Sonnet feels like a regeneration for Benoît Pioulard, the alias of Seattle-based Michigan transplant Thomas Meluch. It continues his work's general tone of melancholy and disrepair, but here he chooses to zone in on the drifty and instrumental side of his ambient project.

Drone has always been a vital part of Thomas Meluch's music, whether working with Rafael Anton Irisarri as Orcas or on his own as Benoît Pioulard.

Submerging into a white-wash of distilled ambience from the outset, yes, we’ve still got the same Benoît Pioulard.

After four albums of swirling, electronically enhanced folk songs, Thomas Meluch, under his moniker Benoît Pioulard, takes a dive into the m...