Chris Forsyth is a lauded guitarist, composer and bandleader whose work assimilates art-rock textures and vernacular American influences. Long active in underground circles, he’s recently released a string of acclaimed records of widescreen guitar rock, and in 2013, he assembled the Solar Motel Band.
His most recent release is the 2019 double album
All Time Present (No Quarter). Raves have been universal with four stars from
Mojo Magazine and five stars from
The Guardian.
Pitchfork said he “seeks the third path between classic-rock peaks and floating experimentalism… [and] achieves a scope only hinted at on [his] previous full-lengths.”
NPR Music previously named Forsyth “one of rock’s most lyrical guitar improvisors,” and the
New York Times called him “a scrappy and mystical historian… His music humanizes the element of control in rock classicism (and) turns it into a woolly but disciplined ritual.”
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