Release Day Picks this week highlight new albums by The String Cheese Incident, Tyler Childers, Allison Russell, Jonathan Wilson, Blind Boys of Alabama, Courtney Barnett, James Blake and Heavy MakeUp.
Shifting gears from his poignant, ethereal album The Kind (2021), Chris Garneau joins forces once again with producer Patrick Higgins (Zs, Nicolas Jaar) to make new sultry single "Stranger": a more chill, soul-infused ballad. Originally written for the closing credits of a pilot teaser, the track was recorded in a day at Kingsize Soundlabs in Los Angeles; an apt horn arrangement written and performed by CJ Camerieri (Bon Iver, Paul Simon) was recorded later in New York.