From the beginning note to the final cheers of the crowd, Eden Burning blew all my doors off. Consisting of 5 men and 1 woman from Gloucester, England, their sound begins with 6 and 12 stringed guitars, a heavy laid bass, and driving drums. Accenting the music are mandolin, harmonica, and woodwind whistles.
They really take off from their folkish sound presented in Vinegar and Brown Paper and explode into some very incredible rhythms that are likely to make the feet of your most reluctant friends tap and sway.
Eden Burning's sound is quite unique and hard to describe. The mandolin, harmonica, and woodwinds surely give a notion of a "folk" band, but it's more upbeat and powerful than typical folk.
Some comments I've gotten from others are: "soft-rock, but not traditional soft rock," "genuine talent, really clean," and "comforting."
Beautiful, enchanting lyrics like "My hands are worn, yet nothing holds. As life, like smoke, curls through my fingers," from "If I Go Up" are enhanced by Paul's British accent, adding another wonderful side to these emotional and heart-string tugging lyrics. Another example is "Jubilee," "Surely you weren't the poor lost girl, who couldn't find her mother. And in taking her hand, my soul was melted, from one world to another. Then I knew: Jubilee! Good news for the poor, the acceptable year of the Lord."
