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Sylvain Chauveau — Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)

Sylvain Chauveau — Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) (TYPE057)

When
Mar 2010
Cover of Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) by Sylvain Chauveau
Artwork: Radu Prepeleac, Alex Alexander

This is a release on Type Records, the label I co-founded with John Xela. John was responsible for its musical output; I contributed in the first few years on design and running the label. The catalogue is archived here for posterity.

It is hard to believe that five years have passed since Sylvain Chauveau's last 'proper' album. The Depeche Mode songs he had explored on 'Down To The Bone' had given him ideas he felt he needed to explore, and 'Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)' is his attempt at an album of 'songs'. Vocal snippets fall through the stereo field and his signature piano motifs splutter and cough through processed digital hiccups. The widescreen theatrics of Sylvain's previous work have all but disappeared, leaving an album that is stark and incredibly beautiful.

Made at Type.

Around the same time

Earlier in music: Indignant Senility — Plays Wagner Volume 2. Later in music: Johann Johannsson — And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees.