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DC 940LP
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$26.00
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 2/28/2025
"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. 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 squirreled 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. Mark Greenberg, alongside longtime Frost A&R man Rian Murphy, brought fresh arrangement ideas to complement the strange-new-world vibe of Edith's songs. Recorded at The Loft in Chicago, with invaluable contributions from Jim Becker (Califone, Air Blue Gowns), Sima Cunningham (Finom, formerly OHMME), Bill MacKay, and Jeff Ragsdale, In Space feels like the most Edith Frost record yet made, pulled from deep inside with great feeling, awash in harmonized 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."
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"Do you hear that gentle sound? It must be time to breathe again. Edith Frost is finally back among us, with 41 minutes of stellar new tunes. People often remark that Edith Frost is a pure country singer. And while we here at Drag City prefer not to confirm or deny such country pigeonholing (what, me -- country?), we'd have to say that Edith Frost's music is a genuinely laid-back, down-home kind of thing, but in an oddly tripped-out fashion. Whether she's singing country music or not -- which she mostly isn't, on Wonder Wonder anyway -- roots are still roots yuh cain't cut 'em away. And the LSD certainly helps here. The point is, in her short five years of making records, Edith Frost has taken great strides into the far-flung field of pop music. Whether she's on about attraction or love lost, optimism or mistrust, Edith's purty (irony, not illiteracy, people!) voice and wild lyrics cut to the truth of the circumstances, truth seen clearly through a mellow haze of pure wonder. And Acapulco Gold."
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