2008, self-released

Insound Staff Pick - 2009! Continental Divide's music is chasms. Singing and echoing though and across the distance between quick turns of phrase and densely laid guitars and pianos, Nathan weaves into Golden Throats stories familiar with emotion and distant with metaphor and allusion. "Four Scenes" opens the EP with Nathan's vocals echoing easily against a simple guitar melody that builds to include crashing drums and running glockenspiels. The ease of vocal delivery carries throughout each song, but that ease is not for lack of effort or concern in his voice. Indeed, admitting one's parents are shadows and pining to be forgotten are not conclusions easily gathered, but Continental Divide is content with allowing the implicit emotion of their lyrics to be filled by the force of crashing guitars and airy keyboards.