SUPPORTED BY AN All-Star cast (Rick Rizzo of Eleventh Dream Day and Sean O'Hagan of Stereolab) and affecting songwriting skills - "Calling Over Time" turns in a deeply satisfying reductionist record that reveals a lonely voice intertwined with several solo instruments ranging from violin to slow strummed acoustic guitar and/or organ, but most notably the conventional stylings of David Grubbs - yes, you read it right, David is playing "conventionally" - on the piano and Jim' O'Rourke on guitar here and there (as well as whipping it altogether up). The boundaries never stray far from a minimalist approach (working well to impart on the listener an intimate setting) with the tempo set consistently the same throughout with the exception of "Shadows" or the up beat "Too Happy," but I think you'll find it's Edith Frost's ghostly affecting vocals delivering a chemical pulse as soft as rain that pulls you in.