Music Explosion
I've written before about my love for contemporary Christian music, especially the modern worship movement. I know its pretty uninteresting stuff for a lot of people, because they've listened to pop/rock for all of their lives, and it strikes them as kind-of cheesy. But, as I've mentioned before, a lot of it is new to me, since I have never had significant exposure to this style of music.
For the next month, it looks like there will be an explosion of new CDs from a lot of my favorite artists. Here's a sampling:
July 26 (today) - Big Daddy Weave's What I Was Made For. I'm not a lover of country music, but for some reason this band's acoustic country/pop sound has always appealed to me.
August 2 - Jeff Deyo's Surrender. (You can listen to samples here). This is Jeff's first live album since departing from SONICFLOOd. Deyo is well known for his desire to create carefully produced studio albums, but SONICPRAISe - the only live album that was recorded by the original SF members - is one of my favorite modern worship albums because it is live. I think worship music just works best on live albums most of the time.
August 16 - Todd Agnew's Reflection of Something. Agnew's gravely voice and powerful, vertically-oriented lyrics and arrangements are a favorite in our house.
August 23 - Chris Rice's Amusing. Rice records some really nice, folk-song type music.
August 30 - Casting Crowns' Lifesong. Almost every song off of their first album was a huge radio hit. Who isn't going to be buying this one?
August 30 - Bart Millard's Hymned. Millard is the lead singer for MercyMe. This will be a solo project containing - you guessed it - hymns.
August 30 - Audio Adrenaline's Until My Heart Caves In. I love AA's guitar-charged sounds, though most of their ballads (with the exception of Ocean Floor) don't quite work for me.
There's no way I'm going to be able to buy all of these, but I'll be picking up Deyo's and Agnew's albums for sure.
For the next month, it looks like there will be an explosion of new CDs from a lot of my favorite artists. Here's a sampling:
July 26 (today) - Big Daddy Weave's What I Was Made For. I'm not a lover of country music, but for some reason this band's acoustic country/pop sound has always appealed to me.
August 2 - Jeff Deyo's Surrender. (You can listen to samples here). This is Jeff's first live album since departing from SONICFLOOd. Deyo is well known for his desire to create carefully produced studio albums, but SONICPRAISe - the only live album that was recorded by the original SF members - is one of my favorite modern worship albums because it is live. I think worship music just works best on live albums most of the time.
August 16 - Todd Agnew's Reflection of Something. Agnew's gravely voice and powerful, vertically-oriented lyrics and arrangements are a favorite in our house.
August 23 - Chris Rice's Amusing. Rice records some really nice, folk-song type music.
August 30 - Casting Crowns' Lifesong. Almost every song off of their first album was a huge radio hit. Who isn't going to be buying this one?
August 30 - Bart Millard's Hymned. Millard is the lead singer for MercyMe. This will be a solo project containing - you guessed it - hymns.
August 30 - Audio Adrenaline's Until My Heart Caves In. I love AA's guitar-charged sounds, though most of their ballads (with the exception of Ocean Floor) don't quite work for me.
There's no way I'm going to be able to buy all of these, but I'll be picking up Deyo's and Agnew's albums for sure.
posted by Matt at Tuesday, July 26, 2005
2 Comments:
While Christian music is something that I do listen to most regularly, I generally don't keep up with when new albums are coming out. These all sound great - so, thanks for putting them on my radar!
Jenni-
I am one of the most pitiful early adopters, ever. You name whatever I'm interested in: movies, music, games, football schedules, game systems, blah, blah, blah: I can tell you when the next one is due out, what it will cost, and who will have it.
Its a little pathological.
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