NFR 018      The Accident That Led Me To The World      The Island Gospel      Price: $10 (regular version)                  $15 (limited-edition version)      MP3s: Hole Of Doubt, Caves The Accident That Led Me To The World's The Island Gospel is a hymnal to loneliness, isolation, and the individual, set to a sound meant to convey the sense of turning your back on the world and being, literally, an island onto oneself. The follow-up to their 2006 self-titled debut, The Island Gospel features 10 new songs that were developed over the course of 2 long years of touring and eight months of meticulous recording sessions. Not quite folk, not quite country, not quite anything else that might fall under the Americana catch-all, The Accident That Me To The World's music might best be qualified as acoustic. This characterization may seem overly simple or broad, but here the term is apt in that it signifies something pure, straightforward, and unadorned by unnecessary embellishments and exaggerations. These days it seems like a lot of CDs and a lot of bands try to testify that they're something that they're not, while The Island Gospel stays true to its flock: instrumentation of vocals, guitars, upright bass, clarinet, and banjo performed by a three-member congregation singing with one voice. Hallelujah. While supplies last: a limited-edition version of The Island Gospel, featuring a 12-page booklet. This booklet contains song lyrics and additional artwork, and is bound in a black linen cover with a silver silhouette of the album's cover image on the front. Also, each booklet is personally autographed by all the people involved in the making of The Island Gospel. Only 200 copies were made of this limited-edition version, and no more will ever be produced. Tracklisting: The Island Gospel / Hole Of Doubt / Life, As An Anchor / Caves / Try Try Try / Nervous Hands / Time And Space / One True Word / Light And Orange Flames / Statues