Delights Of My Life

Following the release of Eric Chenaux's last album Say Laura (2022), The Guardian wrote 'the Canadian songwriter has one of the all-time great singing voices in popular music, an intensely romantic Chet Baker-ish instrument that seems to float with piercing direction, like a paper aeroplane thrown hard through mist.' With Uncut describing his songcraft 'as delicate and lovely as a rare orchid' and Record Collector praising the album's 'sublime alien balladry' such are the accolades that have accrued to Chenaux's unique and consummately uncompromising solo music for well over a decade now.Delights Of My Life opens a new chapter for the singer/guitarist and formally introduces the Eric Chenaux Trio, with Toronto-based musicians Ryan Driver on Wurlitzer organ and Phillipe Melanson on electronic percussion. Driver is a longtime collaborator, appearing on several of Chenaux's solo albums (even embedded into the very title of the 2010 masterpiece Warm Weather With Ryan Driver). Melanson has a long list of involvements that include Bernice, Joseph Shabason, and U.S Girls, and a recent release with his Impossible Burger project on Chenaux's own experimental label Rat-drifting, but this marks the first fulsome involvement between the two as players on a recording.In many ways Delights Of My Life also picks up right where Chenaux's previous album left off, in its subversions of a classic, timeless jazz-inflected balladry, while the interplay of the trio formation indeed unfurls man

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Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Chenaux, Eric
Release Date: 31 May 2024
Genre: Alternative
Label: CONSTELLATION
Distributor: Rocket Group