Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur Erase the middle. You only need the beginning and the end. It's more telling, more appropriate, and reveals so much more about what you truly get. So minus the "a" and minus the "g." And you're left being a voyeur to both the closing of a chapter in the life of Canadian singer song writer Kathleen Edwards - both personal and musical - and the start of something new. The Ottawa native's fourth album finds her exploring in honest, unflinching, often heart-wracking prose the dissolution of her marriage to fellow musician Colin Cripps and the embarking upon a new relationship - again, personal and musical - with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon. Sonically, too, she's begun anew, with the help of collaborator Vernon, blurring those roots lines of the past into something more atmospheric, something more about the feeling than the songs. No, the result is not remarkably different from her previous highmark, 2008's Asking For Flowers, yielding highlight after melodic highlight, by way of tracks such as Chameleon/Comedian, Change the Sheets and Going To Hell. The difference being that, here we feel privy to Edwards at her most emotionally vulnerable, as she works her way through the triangle, tapping the depths of pain, anger, uncertainty and even hope with that hauntingly sublime vox of hers. By the time it's done, we know what she does - there are no middle points in triangles. Only beginnings and endings. However you want to look at it. Rating: 4.5/5 Mike Bell Calgary Herald				Album reviews Feature articles Interviews Show reviews