Edith Frost / In Space LP Vinyl

Edith Frost 'In Space' LP Black Vinyl

After a near-total silence of twenty years, Edith Frost is back again, and in full bloom with In Space. Her first new record since 2005's It's a Game is just in time - the world needs Edith's voice back in the conversation. And her ineffable way with a tune... It seems Edith needed something, too: from the notebooks of her long hiatus, a line like "I say too much/I wait too long/I wait forever/ And notice that it's gone" speaks volumes about feelings of lack. Overwhelmed by the demands of day-to-day living and the details and anxieties that always come, Edith squirrelled herself away for as long as she could-only to find herself isolated, spun even farther into the doldrums. In Space isn't simply a song-cum-album title so much as very real exploration of the remote place she'd found herself, with her songs registering this recognition and measuring the vast distances between herself, the life that is and the life that was. It was the only way back in!

Over the years away, Edith was immersed in music everyday, and spent lots of time learning-in addition to new lyric perspectives, her reinvention of herself as a keyboard player is one of the waves lifting the album In Space. The keys suggested different places within Edith's harmonic palette; for us listening, this attenuation seems to create a deep focus on emotional life within the songs and a breathtakingly visceral presence in the performances. Her voice as well, in all its iterations, sounds quite fine and vital. The songs, as ever, are low-key brilliance elevated by the vitality of Edith's voice.

In Space feels like the most Edith Frost record yet made, pulled from deep inside with great feeling, awash in harmonised voices and, more often than ever before, featuring her own playing. Alternatively approaching and avowing connection, Edith's crafty songwriting orbits the human exchange with an increasing sense of possibility. It's what the world needs the most of today.

Tracklisting:

A1        Another Year
A2        Nothing Comes Around
A3        What A Drag
A4        Hold On
A5        Can't Sleep
A6        Back Again
B1        In Space
B2        Little Sign
B3        Something About The War
B4        The Bastards
B5        Time To Bloom
B6        I Still Love You