Artist : Sylvain Chauveau
Title : Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2010
Date : 03/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 07
Label : Type Records
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 32:46 min
Size : 40,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.From Stone To Cloud 04:21
02.Show The Clear And Lonely Way 03:56
03.The Unbroken Line 06:08
04.Complexity Of The Simple 04:10
05.Slowburner (With Stillness) 04:07
06.A Cloud Of Dust 07:39
07.I Ascend 02:25
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32:46 min
It is hard to believe that five years
have passed since Sylvain ChauveauÆs
last æproperÆ album. Of course there
have been re-issues peppering the years
since æDown To The BoneÆ, as well as
more than a few collaborations and
soundtrack appearances, but Sylvain has
purposefully waited to allow his ideas
to come to fruition. On mentioning his
new album to me a few years ago, Sylvain
commented that he didnÆt think it would
appeal to everyone and that he wanted to
take a fresh direction. The Depeche Mode
songs he had explored on æDown To The
BoneÆ had given him ideas he felt he
needed to explore, and æSingular Forms
(Sometimes Repeated)Æ is his attempt at
an album of æsongsÆ.
In many ways, æSingular Forms (Sometimes
RepeatedÆ) is constructed the way albums
used to be û it is compact and filled
with vocal hooks and melodies, yet
Sylvain has deconstructed the musical
forms he grew up listening to and
reduced them to their base level. Vocal
snippets fall through the stereo field
and his signature piano motifs splutter
and cough through processed digital
hiccups. As Carsten Nicolai and Ryuichi
Sakamoto deconstructed classical music,
Sylvain attempts here to study and
dissolve the roots of popular music.
Each piece feels like it could have
started as a three-minute pop sing-along
before the accompaniments were stripped
away and the component parts reduced to
merely a backbone.
æSingular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)Æ is
a daring and challenging listening
experience. The widescreen theatrics of
SylvainÆs previous work have all but
disappeared, leaving an album that is
stark and incredibly beautiful. It is an
album rooted in a love of art and music,
both minimal and mainstream and
celebrates SylvainÆs influences. One
listen might only reveal surface
details, but listen again and you will
find much, much more.
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