Skullsplitter (LP)

Since 2006, every couple of years Constellation Records gives the stage to their far out balladeer, Eric Chenaux. Emerging on the Canadian East Coast in the early 90s, Chenaux has long collaborated with avant-garde filmmakers and contemporary dance acts. Eric Chenaux has emerged as one of the most distinctive, innovative and original voices in what might be called avant-garde balladry, juxtaposing his gorgeously pure and open singing against a guitar sound and style that truly stands alone. Skullsplitter is the impressive new album that confirms Chenaux's singular aesthetic: genuine, natural, unaffected vocals gliding through slow, smoky melodies while electric and nylon-string guitars are deployed with adventurously experimental, dextrous, semi-improvisational technique and texture. Skullsplitter stands as a welcome and natural evolution from Chenaux's previous song-based album Guitar & Voice (2012), his first properly solo record for Constellation.