Lyrically Via is maybe more optimistic than anything Zedek has written before. Maybe there’s more a sense of longing than anything, but resolutions offer some payoff.
Behind the wails of the Thalia Zedek Band lies the very existential feeling that all hope is not lost because it comes from inside you, that you can recover from death, from war, or even from natural disasters.
Zedek -- backed by a great band ... -- has given us another rumbling, sweet, muscled set of tunes, as resilient as they are beautiful, and showed us that just because you’re in between, doesn’t mean you’re on the fence.
As with so much of Zedek’s best work, these songs have the nurturing feel of someone talking others through decisions where there is no clear right or wrong choice, in a manner free of platitudes or pat answers.