PIOULARD, BENOIT - Sylva (LP+CD) (Sealed) (LP)

Kranky veteran Beno?t Pioulard (n? Thomas Meluch) has created his first full-length for Morr Music, complemented by a linen book of Polaroid SX70 photographs from more than two years of environmental explorations. The music on Sylva and its 84-page visual companion bear the beauty and strange shapes of nature: desert rock formations and colorful leaves, restless waters and peculiar plants. Meluch's dreamy ambient drones and saturated lo-fi pop embody the impressionist sensation of his visual aesthetic -?with this collection sound and vision are merged into an affectionate study of the organic.