REVIEW: Benoit Pioulard's Noyaux EP Is Unsurpassably Beatific

Benoît Pioulard: Blissin' up. Benoît Pioulard's Bandcamp
It’s perhaps strange to say that an artist whose music is so calm, cool, and reflective as Benoît Pioulard is on fire this year, but it’s not inaccurate. So far in 2015, Pioulard (aka Seattle transplant Thomas Meluch) has released the instant classic of gilded-dewdrop elegiac-bliss tunes, Sonnet (Kranky Records), a self-released CD and cassette titled Stanza and Stanza II, an icily beautiful drone-song collab