The Leaves Lift High Song Lyrics

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Quiet Excellence. Innocence Mission's music exudes a peace not found in much music today. The pace is slow but not boring, tasteful and understated, and Don Peris' crisp guitar style is the perfect foil for Karen's unique voice. This album has all the strengths of their best work—strongly evocative melodies, open space in the production, and heavenly harmonies. It may be odd to say, but they make music that makes one feel clean. A strong release.

All I can saw is WOW!. I have to confess I'd never even HEARD of this band but found them circuitously through the marvel of iTunes. How incredibly unique and utterly refreshing this album is. Cloudy? Yes? Uplighting and calming at the same time? Double yes. Quite majestic and bejeweled, this music can take you places.Just let yourself go and be taken away. Rarely have I heard tone set so majestically. Get it without delay!

once again, mission accomplished. there's a sanity to the innocence mission's music i rarely come across. their music is so sensual, so openly felt (a slight austerity provides marvellous tension) yet so unassuming, it takes a couple listens for the full effect to take hold. i've been a fan from 'glow' on - the first two albums are too overproduced for me. the rest of their catalogue, through 'my room in the trees', have similarities to nick drake's catalogue in tone, though IM is clearly more at peace than drake ever was. guileless yet sober, their perfect moniker isn't marketing, it's the real thing.

My Room In The Trees. How would one describe the gentle change of seasons in the North Eastern United States? At times this reviewer finds some things in this world to be truly ineffable, much like the caliber of The Innocence Mission’s newest release, My Room In The Trees (2010, Badman Recording Co.). Although there will be countless comparisons to legendary songwriters in the folk, pop and singer-songwriter genres identifying themselves with this release, we have chosen to offer a slightly laconic review of the album – letting the music and musicianship speak for themselves … well, almost. Enter the album’s opening track, “Rain (Setting out in the Leaf Boat)”, with a playful and cinematic atmosphere comprised of acoustic and electric guitar, violin strings so gently bowed by Gina Di Carlo and perfectly percussed drums a la Steve Brown. Being the only guest appearances on the album, Karen, Don & Mike (The Innocence Mission) have chosen two well-groomed musicians to enroll the listener in this beautiful forty two minute excursion into the Eastern naturescapes as so eloquently spelled out by today’s ‘group de la hora’. As the opening number subsides and the album’s home recorded skeleton rattles its thin white bones on “The Happy Mondays”, the listener finds themselves in the midst of revered songwriting best suited for a walk home from school on a sunny Monday afternoon. If comparisons need be asserted, one might fathom the vocals as a combination of Bjork and Sophia Talvik over a progressive jazz backbone. “God Is Love” gets a little more pop-friendly, and as this Americana-flavored autumnal anthem restores the listener’s faith in a higher musical power, horns add complexity and the simple yet deeply contemplative lyrics resound on a sonic high in the repetition of “God is love and love will never fail me”. Don’t be fooled by the religious reference, as this is a deeply spiritual song suggesting belief in the highest of powers – LOVE. Midway through My Room In The Trees, listeners will hear a song reminiscent of East Coast summers with calming guitar playing that would warm the cockles of hearts across the world – including the father of Smooth Jazz himself, George Benson. Karen’s vocals incorporate a slight (controlled) tremble … not quite trepidation, but more like an inconspicuous trill. Listen closely and imagine soft breath on a newborn baby’s peach fuzz. “Mile-Marker” and “The Melendys Go Abroad” are the two instrumental cuts on the album and found in-between listeners will hear “The Leaves Lift High”, which is sheer beauty in simplicity. Recurring nature and autumnal themes are played out through glorious emotive and introspective songwriting while piano and acoustic guitar compliment Karen’s delicate vocal delivery. My Room In The Trees closes out with a summer theme and a glimmer of hope on “Shout For Joy”, which is a joyous celebration indeed. Leaving on a happy note, listeners will be left with a foreseeable longing in their hearts for more original music that has as much to celebrate as this addition to The Innocence Mission’s catalogue as the previous installments – a fact all too well known in the realm of gifted songwriting and musicianship.

Like Heaven. Always delightful, inspiring, a clean soft flowing of positive notes. Keep singing and I will always keep buying your music :)

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