Following the release of Eric Chenaux’s latest album, Say Laura (2022), The Guardian wrote that ‘the Canadian songwriter has one of the best voices ever in popular music, an intensely romantic, Chet Baker-style instrument that seems to float with a piercing directness, like a paper aeroplane thrown hard through the mist’. With Uncut describing his music as ‘as delicate and lovely as a rare orchid’ and Record Collector praising the album’s ‘sublime alien balladry’, these are the accolades that have been heaped on Chenaux’s unique and consummately uncompromising solo music for over a decade.
Delights Of My Life opens a new chapter for the singer/guitarist and formally introduces the Eric Chenaux Trio, with Toronto musicians Ryan Driver on Wurlitzer organ and Phillipe Melanson on electronic percussion.Driver is a long-time collaborator, appearing on several of Chenaux’s solo albums (even incorporated into the very title of the 2010 masterpiece Warm Weather With Ryan Driver).
Melanson has a long list of appearances including Bernice, Joseph Shabason and U.S Girls, and a recent release with his Impossible Burger project on Chenaux’s experimental label, Rat-drifting, but this is the first full involvement between the two as musicians on a recording.