Based in the United Kingdom, Edward S. White, also known as Cult Canvas, blends a decidedly pop leaning sensibility with dense harmonies, assorted guitar riffs, and unexpected orchestral elements. Touching on the kind of cultural vitality that oozed from moments-in-time like like 80s New Wave & 90s Brit-Pop, latest track "Sincerity" rises and falls like a London skyline, closing with a memorable, if perhaps eccentric, coda that brings to mind psychedelic luminaries like Yardbirds, or even The Kinks. But any serious examination of Cult Canvas will inevitably result in a comparison to Thom Yorke, if only in that unexpected falsetto lift in the midst of a rock bellow that so characterizes the latter, and elevates the former.

It's not just the gritty guitar tones, or the buttery bass performance, or even the layers of inspired vocal harmony that truly characterize this performance: for me, it's the controlled chaos. This music is human in the most important sense, which is that it is unpredictable. It is surprising. It is beautiful.

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