Telescopic

Edith Frost | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1998)
• Original Release Date: October 20, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Drag City
• ASIN: B00000AG74
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #354,198 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

On Edith Frost's second full-length CD, the Chicago-via-San Antonio chanteuse elaborates on the noir-ish indie melancholia of her promising earlier works. With unusually empathic instrumental support from musicians associated with Royal Trux and Pinetop Seven, Frost warbles in a lilting, neo-rural fashion without ever falling into the commercial trappings of country music. Placing an off-kilter, fuzz-laden ambiance over her pensive introspection, Frost simultaneously straddles several American folk forms, including art-damaged psychedelia and minimal back-porch balladry. Quietly powerful in her role as a dusky, lovelorn singer/songwriter, Frost evokes straightforward emotions with subdued lyrical poetry. Songs like "My Capture" and "Walk on the Fire" reveal Frost's sentimental yearning paired with a marvelous ability for self-observation. Her understated vocal stylings create an intimate encounter that is both softhearted and strong-willed. --Mitch Meyers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quietly pensive countrified psychedelia, April 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Telescopic (Audio CD)

Edith reminds me the most of Barbara Manning. She has similar vocal stylings and employs the same sort of low key charm that Barbara does. Both are among the most underrated women artists currently operating in the US, a list that includes Lisa Germano and Lida Husik.

Telescopic is evocative of the best of New Zealand strum and thrum pop. Highly recommended.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cast adrift in a sea of fuzz, June 10, 2000

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David Kipp (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Telescopic (Audio CD)

After listening to Telescopic, Edith Frost's second album, it's difficult for me to believe that this is the same Ms Frost who not so long ago released the astonishing Calling over Time. Whereas her debut was sparse, dizzyingly spacious and recorded with an intense clarity, Telescopic is a dense, fuzzy affair that is somewhat disappointing in comparison.

Calling over Time is imbued with a slow, measured sadness that lingers in my consciousness long after the final song has finished. Telescopic, however, is a record of less clearly defined emotions. The tenderly understated Light and the tense atmospherics of Telescopic aside, the record treads awkwardly through a collection of songs of similar musical theme that are mired in a swamp of murky, distorted guitar sounds and in whose mix Edith's voice is pushed unceremoniously into the background.

Edith Frost writes moving songs of simple beauty and I have no quarrel with the songs on Telescopic per se. It is, however, a shame that the production of the record has by no means done her justice and in fact has served only to detract from the pleasure of listening to her music in its purest form.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars somebody please help me, October 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Telescopic (Audio CD)

i can't stop playing this cd over and over and over ... also check out edith singing background on chris mills' excellent "every night fight for your life".