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My Room in the Trees is the eighth studio album by the American alternative folk/pop band The Innocence Mission, released on Badman Recording Co. in July 2010.
With their haunting college-orientated art-pop Pennsylvania’s The Innocence Mission have been a critically acclaimed act in the mainstream since they first emerged in the mid-’80s. This is their eighth album and is produced by husband and wife Don (guitars and cello) and Karen (vocals, guitars, keyboards) Peris, together with bassist Mike Bitts. Their gentle, lilting, acoustic-based pop draws on themes from their everyday lives as they walk the kids to school, avoid the rain and paddle in the ocean. The first three people to walk into the room where I was listening to this all separately asked if it was a new Katie Melua album, but there are also shades of Joni Mitchell and even Turin Brakes, scattered around these 11 delicious songs which convey a deep contentment with life and a clear awareness of God’s presence within and beyond it all. From the opening lines of the first track «Rain» – “This dress I made out of the curtains was on the line, dancing better than I can” – you know there’s going to be plenty to identify with. «The Happy Mondays» (no relation) just oozes joy and «God Is Love» is shot through with threads of deepest faith and trust which run on right into the closing «Shout For Joy». There are plenty of albums around which grapple with the angst, fragmentation and downright despair of today’s world, so it’s tremendously heartening to happen upon a set of songs such as these which in their lyrics, melodies, arrangement and performance enable the listener to sink back into the comfort of a world where ultimately God is in charge and we can trust him for anything. You might call that escapist, or you might see it as the expression of an attitude that is thoroughly Kingdom-centred. Whatever your view, ‘My Room In The Trees’ is certainly well worth a listen. [Ian Hayter, Cross Rhythms, March 2011]
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CD tracklist:
01. Rain (Setting Out In The Leaf Boat) – 4:13
02. The Happy Mondays – 4:31
03. God Is Love – 3:37
04. Gentle The Rain At Home – 3:47
05. Spring – 3:57
06. All The Weather – 2:58
07. Rhode Island – 3:24
08. North American Field Song – 3:19
09. Mile-Marker – 2:02
10. The Leaves Lift High – 3:58
11. I’d Follow If I Could – 2:00
12. The Melendys Go Abroad – 1:31
13. Shout For Joy – 2:55
Note: Also released on 12-inch vinyl LP by the band. Available at Bandcamp: https://theinnocencemission.bandcamp.com/album/my-room-in-the-trees
“North American Field Song”
“God Is Love”
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