Eric Chenaux

cover: CST52

Sloppy Ground CD CST52

  1. Am I Lovely
  2. Love Don't Change
  3. Rest Your Daylights
  4. Have I Lost My Eyes
  5. Arms, Legs And Moonlight
  6. Boon Harp
  7. Old Peculiar
  8. Dreaming of Stars
  9. Sloppy Ground
Constellation

Sloppy Ground is a collection of beautifully fried love songs, highly original in compositional approach and instrumental texture and utterly compelling in lyrical content and delivery. As Eric Chenaux says, “the lyrics are more concerned with what love does rather than what it means...the time moving through these tunes is not one of the beginning of love or the end or heartbreak of love (though I love that stuff too) but more often in the middle (the working middle, the in between)”.

Chenaux has rallied some of Toronto’s finest ‘out’ players for Sloppy Ground, including Nick Fraser on drums, Ryan Driver on amplified melodica and synths, David Prentice on violin, Doug Tielli on 5-string banjo, Martin Arnold on electric tenor banjo, and Aimee Dawn Robinson on electric echo harp. Chenaux's own guitar work has never been more thrillingly deployed in the context of (relatively) conventional songcraft.