Procrastination || October 31, 2006

It's an all-nighter at DdHQ tonight. Not for any Dd articles/features, however; the entire staff has been outsourced to another project (one that pays money!), so we're burning the midnight oil and downing cans of Monster Energy Drink that were hand-delivered months ago by members of Dallas' Strangleweed (...yes, really).


Point is, we're getting through the night with our new favorite record of the past few weeks. Benoit Pioulard is responsible for Precis, a beautiful folk album that teeters into the almost-too-arty with lots of ambient noise and atmospheric elements. Thankfully, not only is the songwriting lovely enough to anchor the near-pretension but the experience of Precis from start to finish is among the most satisfying we've had with a full LP this year. The guy's not local, we know, so we won't go on and on with a CD review (not until the year-end list, anyway), but people with an affinity for the likes of Iron & Wine, Shiny Around The Edges and that one really weird Apples In Stereo record would be wise to hunt this down post-haste. Especially if they have any mid-term/job-related all-nighters coming soon.

(We'll try to post some meaningful local content up by the end of today...at the very least, we'll tout tonight's Halloween concerts, since you gotta show your costume off somewhere better than the office, right?) -SM