Constant Stranger

Oxford, MS-based Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster - the singer / guitarist for Water Liars releases his debut solo album 'Constant Stranger' via Big Legal Mess / Fat Possum. 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.