IN SPACE [LP]

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. Over-
whelmed by the demands of day-to-day living and the details and anx-
ieties 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 emo-
tional 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 Cun-
ningham (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.