It was in his garden shed in Nashville, Tennessee, that Spencer Cullum found an escape from the noise of the world, from the spew of hatred and vitriol that has come to soundtrack the present day.

Here, in the musician’s makeshift recording studio, the discord was muted. The rush of life was stalled, even if just for a moment. It would be here that his Coin Collection 3 would come to life.

Eric Chenaux brings all sorts of contradictions into play in his music, which is nonetheless ultra-fluid: impeccable groove and disorienting arrhythmia, ghostly harmony and modal stubbornness, roughness and smoothness, Tin Pan Alley and Derek Bailey, refined sophistication and terminal laziness, romantic sentimentality and twisted humor.