"Born in Canada and raised on a hippie commune in rural Virginia, Sproule's spent much of her adult life on tour in North America and Europe, with stints living in upstate New York, Austin, Berlin, and Charlottesville, Virginia, the city she is most identified with. The songs on The Gold String were recorded in Nova Scotia, the Yukon, and Scotland's Shetland Islands, and yet the eight-song collection feels like another charming expansion of Sproule's detailed personal microcosm. The complex weaving of jazzy melodies on opener "Listen to This" wind their way into a rich harmonic chorus before unexpected electronic burbles and bleeps sprout up like synthesized mushrooms. The title cut, with its almost-monotone delivery, unfolds with a sort of stream-of-consciousness poetic grace describing the bucolic details and wildlife of the island where it was written as Sproule muses on the interconnectedness of the people and places in her life ... Musically, the album continues toplayon her adventurous streak, blending shades of jazz, pop, folk, and rock into her own distinctive amalgam"