News of album releases due out in 2015 through Constellation keep on hitting us and we love it. The ever wonderful experimental guitar virtuoso and songwriter Eric Chenaux is the latest artist confirmed to be putting out a new record in the new year, entitled Skullsplitter. The follow-up to his majestic 2012’s Guitar & Voice, “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”, as the label puts it. Skullsplitter “unfolds like a weirdly bubbling but warmly welcoming bath.”
As with previous efforts, Chenaux shared once again production duties with his longtime recording engineer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart). Skullsplitter saw them employing techniques such as “physically swinging speakers and radical gating and panning to tease out further fluctuations in the barometer of the guitar sound.”
The title track is the first single to be unveiled and it serves as evidence that we are in for a treat in 2015. Listen to ‘Skullsplitter’ now and grab the album when it drops on February 17th.
