Edge Kingsland

EDGE VOL 1: Here's My Home

You could say long-awaited when it comes to the Edge Kingsland album. For a long while the NZ church music scene has been dominated by Parachute Music artists, with smaller DIY recordings from local churches rarely travelling further than their own backyards. But a DIY recording with the likes of Dean McQuoid (Elephant), Luke Oram (The Black Dahlias) and Nic Manders (just about everyone) is never going to be quick. It is however, worthwhile.
The collection of songs chosen for the recording have been well played in and out of Sunday services at the Edge homebase in Kingsland, Auckland over the last few years. The players and voices are collective, the songwriting collaborative. For modern church music, it’s refreshingly free of repetitive choruses, covers a diverse vocabulary – from the opening sequences (think long, drawn-out beckoning sounds) to the almost Scripturein- Song beach sing-along “Your Love is A Song” and through massive instrumental breakdowns in ‘Prodigal’. It’s a solid but digestablealbum, deserves to be on your iPod but is better on a decent system. Plenty of production treats hidden away in layering, background vocals and the bottom end that will only be enjoyed on a well-balanced system. In other words, this is church music you won’t have to feel awkward about when someone jumps in the car but you’ll find yourself setting time aside to soak in it when you have the stereo to yourself.

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