​Quote the Raven (from the album Map the Dark

​Quote the Raven (from the album Map the Dark

​Quote the Raven (from the album Map the Dark available as a self-release) (by Danny McCloskey)
Capturing the four corners bordering the frame of our lives, love, loss, memory, and resilience, Quote the Raven offer songs that feel familiar on first listen with their universal themes on Map the Dark, their recent release. The Newfoundland-based duo, Jordan Coaker and Kristen Rodden-Clarke, guide the tracks gracefully, providing warmth and texture with sensuous harmonies for the cinematic soundtracking of their music. Assured chords ward off the winter chills when Quote the Raven opens Map the Dark with the promises of “Back in Spring”. Hushed acoustic chords quietly support the power of the pair’s voices as they ask “Tell Me Tell Me”. Map the Dark somberly walks on the sluggish rhythms backing a lover’s confusion with “Already Gone” and confronts mortality in “Borrowed Time”. 
Three albums into a career, Map the Dark arrives as a deep dive into emotions. Echoey church basement piano notes eerily underscore the sci-fi romance tale of “Uncanny Valley” while a revolving rhythm matches the spins around the dance floor that stage “Oh, Lena”. A quiet majesty cradles the memories tumbling like the drops of water falling throughout “In the Rain”. The soundscape of Map the Dark can claim a Folk music tone, arriving with a lush delivery that polishes the songs to a brilliant shine. A hyper-heartbeat rhythm urges the groove of “House on Fire” forward, the beat matching the urgency in the vocals. (by Danny McCloskey)
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