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Chris Garneau

Alternative singer/songwriter Chris Garneau's music has navigated fragile piano balladry, off-kilter orchestral pop, bluesier guitar fare, and somber, more ambient-leaning works. After debuting with 2006's intimate Music for Tourists, he took a livelier, more orchestral approach to 2009's El Radio, while 2013's darker Winter Games relied more heavily on atmospheric keyboards and electronics, a sound further explored on 2018's Yours. Piano, keyboards, and Garneau's breathy, brittle vocal delivery served as the centerpieces of 2021's grief-informed The Kind. Two years later, he delivered the character-driven EP Out of Love before releasing his sixth long-player, Prince, in 2024. Christopher Michael Garneau grew up mostly in Boston but spent part of grade school in Paris, France, and his later teens in New Jersey. A musician from a young age, he played piano as a kid and spent a semester at the Berklee College of Music after high school. By the time he left school and moved to Brooklyn, he had begun writing songs and booking shows at small venues in Manhattan. California-based Absolutely Kosher Records signed him for the release of his debut album, 2006's sparse Music for Tourists. With Garneau citing songwriting influences such as Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, and Cat Power, it received an Asian release on Pocket Records a year later, and Paris label Fargo Records gave it European distribution in 2008. In the meantime, Garneau released the associated EP C-Sides (2007), and he was featured on a 2007 episode of Vincent Moon's performance-based Take Away Show, further raising his profile internationally. Featuring the Age of Rockets' Saul Simon MacWilliams as co-producer, Garneau's second album, the more fully arranged El Radio, saw release on the same labels in 2009. A gloomier and less structured, more atmospheric set, the self-produced and self-released Winter Games, followed in late 2013. Recorded on a farm in upstate New York, it incorporated his friends' and family's earliest recollections of winter. That album was particularly well received by critics, and, after relocating to Los Angeles, he took a similar approach to late 2018's more personal Yours. It was recorded outside of Lyon, France with producers Benoît Bel and Maxime Vavasseur and guests including Keren Ann and Emily Jane White. By that time, Garneau had collected tour credits with White and Keren Ann as well as Xiu Xiu, Camera Obscura, and José González, among many others. He next headed to the studio with composer/multi-instrumentalist Patrick Higgins (Zs) to record his fifth album, The Kind, which Higgins performed on, produced, and mixed. Largely inspired by the death of Garneau's father and reflections on their relationship, it arrived on the songwriter's own label, Private Friend Records, in early 2021. The four-song EP Out of Love followed in December 2023, in advance of his next full-length release, 2024's Prince.
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