Chris Eckman - The Land We Knew The Best (Preorder 24/01/25)

Chris Eckman - The Land We Knew The Best

Label: Glitterhouse - GRLP1135 - 4015698622478
Format: LP, Album, Crystal Clear
Country: UK
Released: 24th Jan 2025
Genre: Country/Americana
Style: Country/Americana
 
Description
Chris Eckman is one of those songwriters with the alchemist’s touch. He’s proved it over the years as the songwriter of the Seattle rock-folk band The Walkabouts, as well as across a lauded six album solo career. His songs have been recorded by Townes Van Zandt, Steve Wynn, Willard Grant Conspiracy (and others), and his last album, the spare, haunted Where the Spirit Rests, won the prestigious German Record Critics Award (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik) in 2021. Three and a half years later he’s back with The Land We Knew the Best, and new stories to tell. Yet this isn’t just a continuation, it’s not the same character. Time has passed, but maybe more importantly, the geography has altered. The songs on The Land We Knew the Best aren’t populated by the broken people and tumbledown, raw landscapes of the American West that has been the setting for much of his previous work.

There’s a rough-hewn and undeniable beauty in the varied sonic and emotional textures found on The Land We Knew the Best: dark ambiance, distorted crescendos, deep-voiced storytelling and moments of hard earned stillness. It is an album of memory and place; heart and hope. It is an immersive, vivid walk through the landscapes that Chris Eckman knows the best.