Genre: indie, acoustic
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Check Out: “Black Lungs,” “Strangers,” “Walking on Stones,” and “Spirit and Skin.”
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The world has thousands of pithy statements about how healing can come from pain, but I’d never heard all of them put to music until I stumbled across Mending. As the debut full-length from a Dallas, TX band, I was only expecting to find a few good acoustic songs and a lot of twanging about lost love. Instead, I found a subtle masterpiece that seems even more masterful when I remind myself that the arrangements are so simplistic, they’re almost non-existent in certain parts.

This harmony between music and lyrics is so very hard to find, but The New Frontiers has managed to do it in their first time. There isn’t a song on this album that didn’t hold me captivated from the first note. If you’re always looking for the next ‘new thing,’ The New Frontiers and Mending is definitely IT.

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  1. Ansi
    March 8, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    This album contains the newest 11 songs on my playlist to listen to while working at home. :) You’re absolutely right!

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