Returning with his fifth full-length album, The Long Goodbye, Montreal’s Chris Velan sheds the sunnier, reggae/pop-sprinkled sounds on his earlier releases and lets heartbreak take the wheel. As you can probably guess, the record chronicles the aftermath of a failed relationship – a lonesome theme that reflected in Velan’s recording efforts, as he often relied on just himself and his instrument to capture the core of each song. Only a few fellow musicians appear on the album’s eight tracks, which were recorded in a former Methodist church in North Carolina.
Velan also tries his hand at crafting two songs on the piano, a departure from his usual songwriting efforts, but one that provides a bare-bones kind of beauty heard on the LP’s title track. – Emma Godmere, CBC Music
Chris Velan’s The Long Goodbye is out July 23 via NewSong Recordings.
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