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Most casual listeners, and more than a few attentive folk, might consider Hem a one-note band. Yes, more often than not they are slow and sonorous and prone to the sort of overly dramatic swooning associated with silent film actresses, but they strike these poses skillfully. That doesn't make listening to an hour's worth of such posing in one setting any easier, though.

If you're not in the mood, the group's attempts to establish this painstaking beauty and emotional heft will grate very quickly. For those in the audience hoping for a little more variety in Hem's diet, Funnel Cloud is the album for you. In addition to offering generous helpings of the usual Hem fare, the group delve deeper into the country side of countrypolitan. When it all gels in the strolling, gradually erupting "Not California," the presence of need, both spiritual and erotic, makes its presence felt.

Ellyson 's control is complete as the band builds gently, at first, to bring her up and out of her known persona. She can reach into herself and they know it; they go deep with her.

It's such a perfectly natural collaboration it feels like this band has been together for decades. Ellyson 's vocal talents are just beginning to shine, but it's the songs that make them radiant.

The sense of dynamic and texture on Funnel Cloud is deeply nuanced, caressed instead of coerced. When Ellyson gets to "I'm the one who wants to be the one you're with tonight" everything swells to the breaking point and never quite does, thankfully. The former is a straight-up country song that stretches the whole band while sounding as natural as if they've been playing road songs forever. The strings go far beyond the excesses of Nash Vegas, however.

The latter, "The Pills Stopped Working," takes the country music to a rock edge with just a hint of blues. One can actually picture Joan Baez singing this song in her current incarnation. The band spreads itself out but not thin.

The harmony vocals behind Ellyson are the reins of restraint that allow her to creep out on top of the edge, and Bob Hoffnar 's pedal steel whines in the foreground and creeps to the background.

There is grit, fresh hums, and mud in the lyrics and Ellyson sings them with an honesty that is unflinching; she never gives up hope. Funnel Cloud is the site on the horizon, where what's here and now is beautiful and utterly serene, but what lies just behind the next cloud is a storm brewing so memory, loss, hope, desire, and the stillness of the present are all and everything there is.

This is easily the band's finest outing to date; it shows that they have more ideas than can be contained in the space of a single recording. Tuesday 12 October Wednesday 13 October Thursday 14 October Friday 15 October Saturday 16 October Sunday 17 October Monday 18 October Tuesday 19 October Wednesday 20 October Thursday 21 October Friday 22 October Saturday 23 October Sunday 24 October Monday 25 October Tuesday 26 October Wednesday 27 October Thursday 28 October Friday 29 October Saturday 30 October Sunday 31 October Monday 1 November Tuesday 2 November Wednesday 3 November Thursday 4 November Friday 5 November Saturday 6 November Sunday 7 November Monday 8 November Tuesday 9 November Wednesday 10 November Thursday 11 November Friday 12 November Saturday 13 November Sunday 14 November Monday 15 November Tuesday 16 November Wednesday 17 November Thursday 18 November Friday 19 November Saturday 20 November Sunday 21 November Monday 22 November Tuesday 23 November Wednesday 24 November Thursday 25 November Friday 26 November Saturday 27 November Sunday 28 November Monday 29 November Tuesday 30 November Wednesday 1 December Thursday 2 December Friday 3 December Saturday 4 December A diligent search should produce results and the results should be well worth it.

That is, if those titles even approach "Funnel Cloud" on any level at all. Buy this CD! Edited by: David N. Pyles dnpyles acousticmusic. Website design by David N. Pyles DNPyles acousticmusic. All songs published by Universal Polygram International.