It was rumored that the break of the American group 16 Horsepower, which was especially popular in Europe in 2004, was caused by the fact that the band members could no longer live with the conservative beliefs of frontman David Eugene Edwards. Edwards' intolerant statements in the media about Islam and homosexuality did not really appeal to his (predominantly progressive and alternative) audience.
Edwards is a committed Christian and that he means it can be heard better than ever on the fourth album he released under the name Wovenhand. Mosaic is a confession that is as dark as it is fascinating, full of Old Testament doom, reverberation, winding melodies referring to medieval music and direly slow rhythms. A setting against which Edwards invokes the Almighty full of earthly despair, including texts by the early medieval bishop Saint Ambrose. American gothic music, like an evil and faith pregnant painting by Jeroen Bosch. In any case, the EO will not know what to do with it. (MR)more
