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  • Summary: The sixth full-length solo release for the Canadian guitarist was recorded in Paris and was produced with Cyril Harrison.
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  1. Mar 16, 2018
    80
    This is a remarkable record--it is wildly experimental and as comforting as a soft embrace. The most interesting art almost always has a sense of duality, and Slowly Paradise is no different; where it radically differs is in the lack of combat between those opposing forces.
  2. Mar 16, 2018
    80
    This is the organic culmination of our protagonist’s most singular travels, and he’s reached a most puzzling bliss.
  3. Mar 16, 2018
    80
    Chenaux has made a gorgeously hypnotic record that feels like a genuine break from life's often aggressive pace.
  4. Mojo
    Apr 23, 2018
    80
    Slowly Paradise are slow love songs, but slow love songs that, thanks to Chenaux's playing, suggest an impermanence at the heart of all romance, a chaos at life's core. [Jun 2018, p.93]
  5. Uncut
    Mar 16, 2018
    80
    Sensual beauty abounds. [Apr 2018, p.24]
  6. The Wire
    Apr 5, 2018
    70
    When the singing’s done the guitar returns, its tone so stretched and distorted that you can’t quite tell whether it’s purging or celebrating the lyric’s outcome. Are the voice and guitar together or not? It’s complicated.
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