You’ll like this album if “maybe Jesus Walks was better than this sermon” has crossed your mind at least once.
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You’ll like this album if “maybe Jesus Walks was better than this sermon” has crossed your mind at least once.
If he's going to put out 4 or 5 volumes of covers between full-lengths, this would make a good double LP, and I'm already looking forward to the next volume.
What a time to be alive, when Noah Gundersen has like 5 projects going on at once, and you never know when you're going to get one!
This is a strong debut that tempers the sadness and melancholy of the themes with gorgeous melodies and playful production choices.
We are not perfect and our brokenness can be read in our social structures and our relationships.
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With each listen, the songs get richer and more cavernous encouraging yet another cycle of listening.
While the album relies on several indie rock conventions, there is enough diversity and emotional resonance to transcend its influences into a soundscape of its own making.
He’s there, haunting Brand New’s music as well, whether they recognize it or not. For he cannot be brought low.
The music is almost all solemn, majestic, and as I said, cavernous. Not at all out of place in a cathedral or a concert hall.
The more I listen, the more I want to listen. And, currently, that is a musical oddity for me, which is why I cannot say enough about why everyone should buy this album and rock it endlessly.
I had no expectations going into it but wound up feeling like I will be listening to this record for the rest of my life.
Isbell gives a liturgy to the tired, the frustrated, the pain and the sorrows of our days, because he knows that hope always comes from the ashes, from the hard places, and from the seasons of despair.
Awake and Pretty Much Sober has the profile of an album I will be enjoying for a long time.
It is quite a feat after twenty-some-odd years to come back as a band and create something that fits nicely into the corpus of their prior work and, at the same time, propels their sound forward into unsettled territory.
Salutations would be a great album in its own right. But it comes on the heels of the vastly superior Ruminations.
In conclusion, this isn't the best Marvel movie to date. But it's going to rank amongst the "most fun" for sure. Go see it.
What Joshua and Danielle have done here is issue a clarion call to those of us who have allowed apathy to overtake our Christian thinking in this area.