Artist: Emm Gryner
Release: Northern Gospel 
Released: 2011
Label: Dead Daisy Records
Catalog#: PAW 042CD
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue
Country: CAN
Style: pop,rock

image



Ciao Monday
Ageless
Last day on earth
Home
North
A Little War
Heartsleeves
Fast Exit
Survive
Transatlantic




Northern Gospel marks full-length album number 13 for the talented Gryner and finds the Canadian musician delivering 10 tracks of filler-free material that clocks in at a compact 34 minutes. Gryner reteams with producer Stuart Brawley, who helmed her second album in 1997, The Original Leap Year. Northern Gospel's title, as Gryner explained in a post on her blog, has less to do with anything associated with organized religion and "...more to do with what I've learned from where I am, geographically, emotionally, etc." Speaking of "geographically", I love that Gryner throws the occasional Canadiana reference into her lyrics. Northern Gospel offers three such nods, with references to "Victoria rain" (from "Survive"), Gryner's "Stonetown friends" (from "Last Day On Earth", a reference to the nickname of St. Mary's, Ontario, where she lives), and name-checking the country itself in "North". Gryner might not quite surpass The Tragically Hip when it comes to the frequency of paying lyrical homage to their homeland, but it's a small detail that resonates with this Canuck..