Video: Benoit Pioulard, “A Woolgathering Exodus”
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Things we dislike about this video:
1) Overly fey line drawing of a stereotypical indie rock dude.
2) Indie rock guy’s rosy cheeks (looks like a wooden doll that a sailor might carve in his spare time, distracting).
3) How this song is called “A Woolgathering Exodus” but there is no wool in the video.
4) Entire video looking like a Death Cab for Cutie album cover.
Things we like about this video:
1) How much of an understated jam this song is.
2) Any scene where the main character is riding a bike.
3) How Pioulard is still making videos for this album even though it came out in 2008 (a million years ago in internet time), because, fuck it, if you’ve got a good thing you might as well just roll with it until everyone realizes it’s good.
4) How this song is called “A Woolgathering Exodus” but there is no wool in the video.
5) How it makes living by yourself in a house in the middle of nowhere look really fun, beautiful, awesome and not scary (even though we’re 90% sure the woman in this video is a ghost [spoiler alert?]).
Video: Benoit Pioulard, “Ragged Tint”
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When we last checked in with Benoit Pioulard he was hanging out in Portland, working at a restaurant, recording music and spending a lot of time on his bike. Now, just in time for the release of his new album, Temper, Pioulard has created a video for “Ragged Tint,” pairing soothing vocals with speedy finger-plucked guitar. When we first heard it, we were thinking the song would be a great soundtrack to nightmares about being chased, and it turns out we weren’t too far off because the video features Pioulard running really fast against the backdrop of a pretty amazing Oregon sunset. If we were him, we’d get back on the bike (it’s faster, dude), but since we’re not him, we’re just going to go ahead and recommend that you hop on your own bikes (or run really fast) to the record store to buy Temper on Tuesday.
Video Premiere/Freeload: Benoit Pioulard, “Idyll”
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Benoit Pioulard’s album Temper hits the streets on October 14th via Kranky. In these dog days of summer, it has had a fairly steady background presence as we attempt to soak up as many rays as possible. We like to imagine that Benoit aka Thomas Meluch, wrote the majority of it while riding around Portland on his bike, and it turns out we weren’t that far off. After the jump, read about the making of “Idyll,” ghost jellyfish, Weezer and bird sounds. Up above, watch the video premiere of “Idyll,” featuring a bunch of ’70s scientists looking at machines.
