The Innocence Mission began as four friends who met during a Catholic high school production of the musical Godspell. Although the quartet remain friends, the one consistent incarnation of the Innocence Mission revolves around the inspired musical marriage of guitarist Don Peris and his wife, vocalist/pianist Karen Peris. Gorgeous and dreamy, their new offering, "Now the Day Is Over," collects standards and traditional songs that singer Karen Peris has sung to her children as lullabies. A portion of the p...   [ read more ]

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With 2003's Befriended, the Innocence Mission continue the organic, supremely tasteful folk-pop first crafted on 1999's Birds of My Neighborhood. Added to the wood-and-glass aesthetic are occasional traces of ambient synth strings, or a sun-soaked, delirious vibrato guitar. Lyrics of timorous optimism and familial devotion are woven into cascades of upright bass, brushes and tambourine, the tinkling ghost of a piano, and the snowy hollow-body electric guitar of Don Peris. Primary songwriter ...   [ read more ]

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With eleven new songs that are memorable and genuinely moving, the album continues their progression toward intimate recordings where each note played and sung seems essential. From the shining opening track, "Brotherhood of Man", in which she speaks of connectedness to strangers in everyday moments, to the longing of the closing lines of "My Sisters Return from Ireland", Karen Peris' hauntingly beautiful voice communicates with immediacy.

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