Edith Frost – “Evangeline” (4-song 7″)

When I was little, my mother used to sing a tragic Japanese song to me that would send chills up and down my spine. It was always one of my favorite songs. Edith Frost’s new single has the same melancholy effect. There’s a pervasive sadness in her songs, a haunting and beautiful fragility in the simplicity of the guitar and voice. The hollowness of the recording makes Frost’s sweet, clear voice resonate like it’s the only voice in the world. Aside from maybe Leonard Cohen…