I’m pretty much lost for words right now.  The piano in the opening track “This Land” is straight out of “The Calm at the Edge of the Sea“.  This whole album makes me very nostalgic for a time when I was lost in the ethereal space of Mendocino and Fort Bragg, creating and divining art through means that I now can look back upon and understand, but never reinvent.  I feel like the high water mark of my 20s is set by the force which was bringing together “The Calm at the Edge of the Sea” and everything else before and after has been beside a hidden point that stands stronger than ever.  “Hirror Enniffer” brings dead memories to the surface of my mind, like a body in an iced over pond at springs thaw.

Although it’s not the artists intent, for those who have seen “The Calm”, this album is very essential, it’s a companion piece, as if the credits have rolled but the theater is still dark, and this is what you are forced to live with.  Murder is art, art is beautiful when it brings tears.  For reasons that you must understand this is the best album I have heard this year.  Good job Faith.

There is light around the next bend.

If you want more information on the band go to their myspace.  Mamiffer.