Search - Edison Woods :: Seven Principles of Leave No Trace

"This second effort "Seven Principles of Leave No Trace" offers a wide open view of the band's sound; the strings and keyboards predominantly dress these nine shimmering, haunted, songs with a kind of solitary elegance that is at once sophisticated, dynamic, and full of seamless dynamic tension. The album's chromatic palette creates a spectral, textural schema where the protagonist, delivering song lyrics that are as poetic as they are rooted in all that lies beneath the surface of relativism and outward perception, is de-centered by and in the music itself. This is music that reflects the outward breath, the one exhaled by an individual that dissolves herself as she exhales, into the emptiness and interconnectedness of an undefined, limitless universe. At times Frodahl's voice comes so near to breaking under the weight of change that the listener has to hold her breath for a moment, seemingly to buoy the singer through this gorgeous yet tenderly violent moment of reckoning. It's a gloriously vulnerable album to be sure. But in the giving away of everything, as these voices do again and again throughout this recording, "Seven Principles of Leave No Trace" stands resiliently, naked and tall, as a deeply moving and redemptive work or art." -- All Music Guide