Cracked Picture Frames

Written in the bleached out swamps of South Florida and recorded in London, 'Cracked Picture Frames' is a hard-core and stripped-down survey of ballad, blood, and bone. Sharp, intelligent, thoughtful and moving, the bristlling full-length debut by American songwriter Robert Chaney rings with echoes of Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, and early Tom Waits, but the exceptional quality of Chaney's lyrics, as well as his melodic sensibility make for a thoroughly original album that is 'head and shoulders above its peers'.