Oxford, MS-based Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster – the singer/guitarist for Water Liars – will release his debut solo album Constant Stranger on September 30, 2016 via Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum. All Things Go today debuted [LINK] the first single “Headed South,” calling it “a cathartic tune.”
Constant Stranger is available for pre-order in the Big Legal Mess website: http://biglegalmessrecords.com/product/justin-peter-kinkel-schuster/constant-stranger/.
The 11 songs on Constant Stranger feel like snapshots documented, processed, and archived, filled with stories and images of how the small and often overlooked everyday moments affect the larger ones. There’s a weary yet warm, resigned yet hopeful, realist yet romantic nature to Kinkel-Schuster’s writing, which here strikes as an attempt at reconciling – or reckoning – the complicated and changeable nature of memory and all human relationships. With evocative imagery of the natural world,
Constant Stranger seamlessly blends these deeply personal ruminations on family, lovers, a musician’s transient life, and the frequently confounding nature of existence – and creates a universally felt home for memory, gratitude, acceptance, and regret.
Written throughout the past fall and winter, Kinkel-Schuster recorded Constant Stranger in Water Valley, MS’s Dial Back Sound and played every instrument on it save for one bass part. The album was mixed at the Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis, TN. A full track listing and cover artwork are below.
Over the past four years, Kinkel-Schuster has released three albums with Water Liars – 2012’s Phantom Limb, 2013’s Wyoming, and 2014’s eponymous LP – which have earned praise from outlets including The New York Times, Alternative Press,
American Songwriter, Under The Radar, All Music Guide, and No Depression, among others. Water Liars will head out on tour next month with an expanded line up for the first time, with the core trio of Kinkel-Schuster, Andrew Bryant, and GR Robinson joined by Len Clark (drums) and Kell Kellum (pedal steel). A current itinerary is below and Kinkel-Schuster solo dates will be announced soon.
Constant Stranger
track listing:
1. Whose Will Be Done
2. Headed South
3. False Dawn
4. Laid Low
5. Milky Cradle
6. Moccasin Bones
7. Half Broke
8. Brake Dust
9. Painting Houses
10. Shorthand Mythology
11. The Dirt, The Bells & I
Water Liars tour dates:
JULY 9 ST. LOUIS, MOOFF BROADWAY
JULY 11 ROCK ISLAND, ILDAYTROTTER
JULY 12 CHICAGO, ILSCHUBAS
JULY 13 FORT WAYNE, INTHE BRASS RAIL
JULY 14 ATHENS, OHCASA NUEVA
JULY 15 CATONSVILLE, MDSCHMIDT HOUSE
JULY 16 W. KINGSTON, RISWAMP STOMP
JULY 19 BROOKLYN, NYROUGH TRADE
JULY 20 WASHINGTON, DCDC9
JULY 21 RALEIGH, NCNEPTUNE’S
JULY 22 ABINGDON, VAWOLF HILLS BREWING COMPANY
JULY 23 CHARLOTTE, NCSNUG HARBOR
JULY 26 ASHEVILLE, NCTHE MOTHLIGHT
JULY 27 NASHVILLE, TNTHE BASEMENT
JULY 28 ATLANTA, GATHE EARL
JULY 29 CHATTANOOGA, TNJJ’S BOHEMIA
JULY 30 MACON, GABRAGG JAM*
* includes both Water Liars and JPKS solo sets
