Edith Frost: Next Steps

Edith Frost crafts downtempo numbers that buoy and sway like hammocks, while still commanding your full attention. That skill is evident in this set of sultry slow-burners, which includes a quietly peppy cowpoke cover of “Long Black Veil”, the inchoate underwater transmission “Calling Over Time” and the achingly pretty “Emergency”, on which piano and acoustic guitar call and respond.