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  • Summary: The latest experimental full-length release for the Toronto-based guitarist features four instrumental tracks produced with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh.
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  • Record Label: Constellation
  • Genre(s): Experimental, Pop/Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Guitar Virtuoso
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  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Feb 18, 2015
    90
    Skullsplitter is a triumph of post-modern songwriting, where decisions can be recast and repurposed to suit the needs of the present.
  2. Feb 18, 2015
    80
    When Chenaux alights on something more typically songlike, he sparks both anticipation and memory: an interesting marriage of nostalgia and novelty.
  3. Feb 18, 2015
    80
    Each song is so comforting, peaceful and downright beautiful that it’s like being lost in a wonderful auditory dream.
  4. Feb 20, 2015
    80
    For all its sonic investigation and ellipticity, Skullsplitter is an intimate, even readily accessible offering that is quite human in its unhurried exposition of emotional depth and vulnerability.
  5. Mar 11, 2015
    80
    Skullsplitter is ultimately that: comforting, even more so than it is odd.
  6. Apr 13, 2015
    70
    Although it is exploratory in terms of space and texture, Skullsplitter is anything but incidental; it unfolds like an epic poem, in all its boundary-dissolving creativity and intentional patterning.
  7. Mojo
    Mar 19, 2015
    60
    Adrift in a sun-warped dome of guitar wah, wobble and dub. [Apr 2015, p.89]

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