Artist: Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster Album: Constant Stranger Bitrate: 200kbps avg Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz Label: Big Legal Mess Records Genre: Indie Size: 62.60 megs PlayTime: 0h 41min 23sec total Rip Date: 2016-10-14 Store Date: 2016-09-30 Track List: -------- 01. Whose Will Be Done 3:29 02. Headed South 3:59 03. False Dawn 3:55 04. Laid Low 3:37 05. Milky Cradle 3:17 06. Moccasin Bones 3:17 07. Half Broke 4:11 08. Brake Dust 4:28 09. Painting Houses 3:47 10. Shorthand Mythology 3:56 11. The Dirt, The Bells & I 3:27 Release Notes: -------- There are moments in many of the Water LiarsÆ songs when lead singer Justin Peter Kinkel-SchusterÆs voice seems to cut through the atmosphere, sharp and clear and hauntingly beautiful. The Mississippi band puts that voice front and center on dark, Southern folk rock songs that could easily leave you breathless. Now, with the release of Kinkel-SchusterÆs debut solo record Constant Stranger, we are treated to 11 tracks of that familiar voice, sometimes a wild howl and others a low, quiet quiver. Solo suits him, putting his detailed and poetic lyrics more in the spotlight than ever before. Like in the Water Liars, Kinkel-Schuster casts a messy light on life with his songwriting. Painting unflattering portraits of being a flawed man with that undeniable Southern identity, the songs on Constant Stranger will break your heart if you let them. While the quieter moments are fewer and further between on Water Liars records, Kinkel-Schuster brings laser focus to them on this album. HeÆs less concerned with rocking out, hard and loud, and more interested in storytelling. Constant StrangerÆs high points are when Kinkel-Schuster shows his knack for melody. ôHeaded Southö, ôWhose Will Be Doneö, ôMoccasin Bonesö and ôLaid Lowö have that picked-up pace with a driving rhythm, like true road songs. ThereÆs nostalgia and hints of memoir in these songs, and though theyÆre some of the catchier ones on Constant Stranger, their examination of solitude is just as raw. On ôMoccasin Bonesö he sings of disintegrating into a shell of a person following a breakup, and on ôHeaded Southö he is the one to do the leaving, relishing in the loneliness. All the while, Kinkel-Schuster maintains his deft atmospheric observations. ThereÆs a distinct sense of place on Constant Stranger that is impossible to ignore. Whether itÆs a mention of the moon and the wind in the Mississippi Delta, or ôa sky the color of dark melon rind,ö or ôsmoke and gravelö, Kinkel-Schuster is aá deeply visual storyteller. On slow, folksy stunner ôThe Dirt, the Bells and Iö Kinkel-Schuster comes to terms with his own mortality. He reaches a pure simplicity, as he becomes one with the earth. Like an old prophet offering up his last words, thereÆs an old world charm to this track, and itÆs easy to see that Kinkel-Schuster is in touch with both his own roots and his influences, musical and literary. Whether channeling Jason Molina or William Faulkner, Kinkel-Schuster carves out his own identity among them with Constant Stranger.