• All Wovenhand need is a film to go along with their soundtrack.
Ten Stones, the latest album from David Eugene Edwards’ post-16 Horsepower project, Wovenhand, simultaneously brings to mind the Wild West and the apocalypse. The album’s dark, country-tinged folk harkens back to the days of hard men encountering adventure, danger and hardship on the frontier. The barren emptiness in the songs and Edwards’s brooding, theatrical voice look ahead to a bleak future of disaster and despair. If ever there was an album to soundtrack Stephen King’s Dark Tower novel series, Ten Stones is it.
The problem with the album, though, is that there’s not much to it beyond the impeccably consistent atmosphere. The mood it creates is great, but aside from that, nothing really stands out. After the first couple of songs, even Edwards’ portentous voice starts to fade into the gloomy background, where it’s eventually lost. Ten Stones would function marvelously as a companion piece to a dark and menacing piece of fiction, but on its own it’s somewhat lacking.
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