Artist Info:Discography Album length: 21 tracks: 72 minutes, 59 seconds Street Date: September 27, 2005
When modern worship giants such as Delirious, Matt Redman, Darrell Evans, and Hillsongs took the
Christian music industry by storm ten years ago with music that was both worshipful and musically relevant,
the industry took notice. Since then, almost every top ten CCM artist has either contributed to or released
a worship project, or has one in the works. Christian record labels continue to churn out new worship
artists and new compilations. The genre has become over saturated with sound-a-likes and look-a-likes, and
innovative, original worship music has been hard to find.
That being said, David Crowder Band's latest release A Collision is one of
the most innovative and experimental worship projects in recent years. With a whopping 21 tracks broken
down into four parts, A Collision is very much a collision of styles and genres of music. Songs
like "Hope Rising (Or Be Lifted)" go from old gospel to an almost grungy rock and then to square dance
country, while "Do Not Move" fuses techno and rock together. Sometimes it works, and well, sometimes it
doesn't.
The problem with experimentation is that it doesn't always achieve the desired result. While
A Collision is fresh and original, it is also scattered all over the musical spectrum. Although
this approach is artsy and innovative, it can also be distracting when a song goes from rock to hillbilly.
But for the most part, the experimentation pays off, and in an over-saturated genre of musical clones, any
musical experimentation is welcome, and greatly appreciated.
A Collision offers its fair share of standard worship songs as well. "Here Is Our King" and
"Wholly Yours" are some of the more easily accessible worship songs on the album. Part of the beauty
of this release is David Crowder Band's ability to seamlessly blend in more traditional modern worship
songs with newer techniques, creating a solid yet original worship album from start to finish. Thank you
David Crowder Band, thank you.
- Review date: 9/25/05, written by David Taylor
Artist Info:Discography Record Label:sixstepsrecords Album length: 21 tracks, 72 minutes and 59 seconds
Street Date: September 27, 2005
A PART
Everybody Wants To Go To
Heaven (A Walk Down Stairs)
Come And Listen
Here Is Our King
Wholly Yours
Foreverandever Etc...
B PART
(A Quiet Interlude)
A Beautiful Collision
Soon I Will Be Done With The Troubles
Of The World
Be Lifted or Hope Rising
I Saw The Light
O God Where Are You Now (In Pickerel Lake?
Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)
C PART
(B Quiet Interlude)
Do Not Move
Come Awake
You Are My Joy
Our Happy Home
D PART
(Repeat/Return) or When The Seventh Angel
Sounded His Trumpet, And There Were Loud
Voices In Heaven Which Said: "The Kingdom
Of The World Has Become The Kingdom Of
Our Lord And Of His Christ, And He
Will Reign Foreverandever, Etc..."
We Win!
Rescue Is Coming (B Walk Down Stairs)
A Conversation
The Lark Ascending or (Perhaps More
Accurately, I'm Trying To Make You Sing)
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