On Signal Fire, Eddie Berman’s sonic journey draws deeply from the introspective period of his previous album’s isolated recording.

Rekindling with the genuine, raw essence of live music, this new collection showcases a maturity in his artistry, reminding listeners of the haunting beauty of Nick Drake’s Pink Moon and the poignant depths of Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks.

Tracks like Rolling Over Me and Heartbroken lead listeners through a landscape of love, longing, and rebirth during challenging times -emerging from the haze of isolation to the radiant warmth of connection, as Eddie puts it.

The album stands as a testament to Berman’s adaptability, synthesizing the introspective insights of remote creation with the invigorating energy of live, in-person reunions.

Eddie’s ascent in the music world began in earnest in 2014 with the release of Blood & Rust. His captivating duet of Dancing in the Dark with British folk legend Laura Marling quickly became a standout, lighting the fuse for subsequent releases that garnered tens of millions of streams.

This momentum propelled Berman onto the touring circuit, sharing stages with icons like Laura Marling again, Tyler Childers, Passenger, and Lee Ann Womack. The pandemic might have disrupted the conventional music process, but Berman embraced the challenge, producing his last album Broken English through remote collaborations and laying the emotional groundwork for what has now culminated in Signal Fire.

1. Rolling Over Me
2. Go From Here
3. Mare Imbrium
4. Mine All Mine
5. Back To You
6. Looking In
7. Heartbroken
8. First Of Spring (Keira’s Song)
9. Anymore
10. Fevered Skin
11. Awakening
12. Heavenly Sign
13. Strange Place

This excitingly vibrant, and wholly magnificent new recording opens on the lushly orchestrated Rolling Over Me and the poetically sculpted Go From Here and then bleeds seamlessly into the low slung, rhythmically fluent Mare Imbrium, the warmly embracing Mine All Mine, and then we get brought forth the impassioned piano ballad Back To You and the lazy, hazy dancefloor swirl and twirl Looking In.

Along next is the quietly jaunty Heartbroken and the earthy ballad First Of Spring (Keira’s Song) and they are in turn backed by the fluid guitar work within Anymore, a gentleness of grandeur of Fevered Skin, the strident yearn of Awakening, the album rounding out on the storytelling within Heavenly Sign, closing on the melodic prose that leads us through Strange Place.

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