photo by Elizabeth Ibarra
It is funny what hooks you into an artist's sound for the first time. For me, when it comes to Massachusetts' raised, Philadelphia based singer songwriter Eliza Edens it was the way she sang the word "you" during the beginning moments of her song Days, Nights from her upcoming debut album "Time Away From Time". Amid a bass line with a clock like cadence and pearly acoustic guitar picking rhythms she draws out "you" in a long beautiful sustain. It made me notice the nuances in her voice, her vocal ease as as storyteller and her ability to create ebb and flow melodies that reel you into her emotions. That initial peaking interest eventually drew me to the poetry of her words and lovely production cues like the falling away guitar on the chorus and dreamy harmonies. Love Edens' vocal aesthetic. Yes, it is funny what hooks you into an artist's sound for the first time.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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“How do I make the days go by / With a fever dream but a mellow mind?” It’s a simple question with a complicated answer that’s at the root of most of the songs on Eliza Edens’ debut record ‘Time Away From Time,’ out April 17. For the Massachusetts-raised, alt-folk artist who more recently calls Philadelphia home, the answer is to create her music in a world distinctly separate from the constraints and speed of modern living. Inspired by ideas of geologic time, the challenges of early adulthood, and the grandeur of nature, Edens brings her vision to life with adventurous fingerpicking, heart-tugging melodies, and poetic lyrics – inviting listeners to inhabit the songs as they wish. Recorded with support from Club Passim’s renowned Iguana Fund, ‘Time Away From Time’ carves out fresh sonic territory in the realm of traditional songwriting and marks a moment of growth in the life of a budding songwriter.
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