LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a heavyweight jacket with black poly-lined audiophile dust sleeve, credit insert, pull-out art poster and download code for 320 kbps MP3 copy of the album.
CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on thick 24pt. paperboard with a printed CD dust sleeve.
1. Have I Lost My Eyes?
2. The Pouget
3. Skullsplitter
4. My Romance
5. Spring Has Been A Long Time Coming
6. The Henri Favourite
7. Poor Time
8. La Vieux Favori
9. Summer & Time
Running time: 00:42:06
LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a heavyweight jacket with black poly-lined audiophile dust sleeve, credit insert, pull-out art poster and download code for 320 kbps MP3 copy of the album.
CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on thick 24pt. paperboard with a printed CD dust sleeve.
"Chenaux's combination of hacked music box guitar experimentation and lonely lounge crooning conjures a spell simply too enchanting to break... Skullsplitter dispatches the listener on a mission to crack the mysteries of time and space, and without offering much in the way of answers, its potential for repeat listens is enough of a reward. Skullsplitter is a triumph of post-modern songwriting, where decisions can be recast and repurposed to suit the needs of the present." – Exclaim! 9/10
"Mesmerizing... Skullsplitter is an intriguing choice in title for this record, as it evokes the image and idea that Eric Chenaux is a man with two brains. At the very least, his two cranial hemispheres might be operating at the same time, but never in tandem. From the left side comes his voice, pure of tone and true; from the right, the wild and wondrous sounds Chenaux coaxes from his guitars. Left brain, ordered and logical. Right brain, experimental and original." – Quick Before It Melts
"In the field of avant guitar wrangling, Chenaux's style is genuinely distinctive... His latest is an(other) effortlessly lovely solo set that recalls John Martyn, Marc Ribot, Arthur Russell and the Hardanger fiddle tradition, as it weaves trippily between improve jazz, electronica, folk-drone and lounge balladry. Chenaux's pure, sweet voice soars along Chet Baker and Jeff Buckley lines and he's no lyrical slouch, although an instrumental interpretation of the Rodgers/hart classic "My Romance" is a highlight. More heartmelter than skullsplitter - but just as ruinous." – Uncut
"[“Have I Lost My Eyes"] rolls out like a broken lullaby. Chenaux sings with hopes high in reunification – “We could try skydiving and watch the world uncurl” – drowned in a hole wicked enough to split skulls. The guitar work weeps in between verses and over a dial-tone-like metronome, with Chenaux pouring questions – “Have I lost my eyes?” – into an empty line deliberately taken off the hook." – Tiny Mix Tapes
"Though he's credited with vocals, guitars (electric, un-amplified electric, nylon-string), speakers, melodica, and electronics, the album's essence is constituted by the combination of his pure voice and idiosyncratic guitar playing. More precisely, his music derives its considerable impact from a striking juxtaposition: on the one hand, a crystal-clear voice that glides and soars, and on the other, guitar playing that never harmonically parallels the voice's trajectory but more diverges from it with oblique, semi-improvised lines. The two function like tributaries that flow in the same direction yet possess distinct shapes." – Textura
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