How Many Angels? Reveals Kyler's Past Pain

With beautiful classical/rock arrangements, and a voice that adds definition to the word "passion", Kyler comes at you with her third release How Many Angels?

This six song EP takes you on a brief but all too real journey through the pain and grief Kyler experienced during and after losing her beloved mother, Martha Kyler Cole England.

From the moment you hear the vocal harmonies on track #1 which segues into a soft (but not too soft) rock If The World Would Just End; you've just been drawn into the journey.

Before you know it, you're hearing the melodies of strings, followed quickly by ivory on the second track Lump. With a voice very reminiscent of Paula Cole, Kyler describes feelings of not being able to tell her mother all the things she really wants to say to her. "there's a lump in my throat that's preventing me from saying to you all the things i need to tell you/ and so I'm sentenced to silence".

On Why?, Kyler is facing the ultimate question, WHY? Also the track from which the EP's Title comes from, Kyler implores to God, "How many angels do you need in heaven above? / We could use more here on earth".

Seeing the loss of her mother through her father's eyes and taking us deep into a state of near tears, or in my case, right there - Kyler soulfully sings right to our hearts on the next track Save Me. "Woke up all alone / your warmth is gone and now there is cold / how do I face life on my own / without you?".

With a sparse arrangement, and with the same voice that quite possibly moved you to tears a few moments before, Kyler finishes the EP with a song she wrote five years prior to losing her mother. She added it in since she thought it seemed even more relative. These Four Walls is a beautiful song about a love lost, and how someone, even though they are no longer in our lives for whatever reason, can still leave an imprint on our heart.

Occupying the spaces in our hearts ... though we might have not realized it until they were gone, so we are left with emptiness. As Kyler puts it, "You created a space inside of me / I never knew it was there / now that this space is empty / I am always aware that it's here".

All in all, I'm extremely satisfied with this entire CD. I decided to review it song by song because to leave one out wouldn't properly convey the haunting impression this CD has forever left on me.