Benoît Pioulard, aka Oregon (via Michigan) multi-instrumentalist Thomas Meluch, is putting out his gorgeous sophomore Kranky release Temper in a couple weeks. Meluch has earlier self-released CD-Rs and cassettes and the like, but 2006's Précis and these 16 new compositions are easier to track down. See, for instance, the highly dramatic (and flammable) Ryan Jeffery-directed video for Temper opener "Ragged ...