NEW CD

At twenty-four years old, Chris wears his musical dexterity as comfortably as an old pair of sneakers. On plangent, willowy songs like  Away She Goes, Chris's vocal swoops show he can still clear melodic hurdles with engaging ease while the up-tempo anxiety of Secrets and Lies reveals a bite in Chris's voice that could only come from the most indelible markers of adulthood: conviction. And conviction is also something Chris Carpenter wears well, because falling out of the atmosphere is too important to do without a safety net.