Melodium – Cerebro Spin (Audio Dregs)

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Laurent Girard, or Melodium as he’ known, creates some very dreamy sounds indeed on his latest album of mainly instrumental music, Cerebro Spin. Displaying clever usage of slower time signatures, particularly the drum programming/sampling throughout, Melodium’ world is a gentle place, it’s nuances not unlike those displayed by Scott Heron’ gorgeous Savath & Savalas project. The composer from France is no slouch either, with an output of 10 albums in 7 years or so.

Throughout Cerebro Spin, there are explorations of military drum parradiddles, heavily chorused and flanged guitars, gently tinkling and padded keys, flute lines meandering like snakes and a splash of psyche-lite thrown in for good measure (such as back masking, harmonium and muted trumpets).

A track such as “Kissing Disease” with it’s fragile piano and spoken word overlay wouldn’ sound out of place on the Yann Tierssen “ Amelie” soundtrack. Elsewhere, classical guitar pieces nestle alongside skittish acoustic cut ups. There’ a neo-classical feel to “Panic Disorder” and “Not Yet 2” sees Girard convert his sound to folk pop, complete with hazy vocal and warm synth melodies.

The album is an enjoyable listen that I suspect will reward the listener upon repeated visits, it’s only flaw is that the production on the tracks is quite samey, with similar instrumental structures (as varied as they may be) used throughout.

Lyndon Pike

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