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CHRIS GARNEAU - Music For Tourists
| StylusMagazine | | The leaves whisper so eagerly,” the troubled misfit Mortiz says in Frank Wedekind’s salacious tale of teenage debauchery, Spring Awakening. For Chris Garneau, former participant in the much-lauded Broadway revival of Wedekind’s play, there’s not a better sentence that encapsulates his debut, Music for Tourists....full text |
| | PrefixMag | | It's not hard to hear why Jamie Stewart (a.k.a. Xiu Xiu) would have turned Absolutely Kosher honcho Cory Brown on to the delicate piano ballads of Brooklynite Chris Garneau. Garneau's debut, Music for Tourists, shares a certain sensibility with the mellower side of Stewart's songwriting: It's painfully heartfelt, hauntingly stark and miked so close you can hear his lips part as he sings....full text |
| | CokeMachineGlow | | I hope that Chris Garneau will read this review since it will be written primarily for him. This is because I’ll not be advocating that anyone rush out to cop this album, nor, since this is his first work, will I be pissing off any legion of fans that he’s previously established. To recommend good music and to outrage the differently opinionated were the two reasons that I starting writing for CMG in the first place. Failing that, I may as well issue some practical advice....full text |
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