Chris Lippincott is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist — raised in Tupelo, Mississippi, shaped by six years in New Orleans, and now making music from Nashville.

His music is a genre-blurring trance — anchored by piano, blending synthetic textures, organic instrumentation, and the human voice to create space for contemplation — a sonic landscape where struggle meets grace, and striving gives way to surrender.

His latest full-length, Angel in a Jetstream, is his third album and the fullest expression of a deepening obsession with string writing — one that began with a grad school thesis rescoring the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men and was steeped in years of listening to Jonny Greenwood, Sigur Rós, and Nils Frahm alongside a background in pedal steel guitar. The string tracks were captured live in a single session with violinist Alicia Enstrom and a quartet of players whose specific voices shaped every passage.

The album takes its title from a moment at a Salvador Dalí sculpture exhibit in Italy — specifically a piece called Angel of Triumph: a back-bent angel playing trumpet toward the sky, described as "a bridge between heaven and earth, a reflection and vehicle of divine light."

It spoke to something I'd been circling for a while — that in an increasingly numbing culture, the search for transcendence feels more urgent than ever.

Dalí himself had left religion young before returning to explore divinity in his later work. The piercing violin falling in and out of lush chordal harmony felt like it had already been reaching toward the same idea: the tension between the earthly and the divine.

Angel in a Jetstream releases May 22, 2026, with a limited 180g vinyl pressing available on Bandcamp for pre-order.