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For Fans Of Gungor, Jars Of Clay, Caedmon's Call, Robbie Seay Band, Coldplay
I honestly look at this album as a journey ... but I noticed some of the same issues another friends of mine dealt with in trying to create a story ... one of hope - of properly portraying brokenness - while still having an album FULL of uplifting and encouraging songs...
The odd thing, well not REALLY odd, but anyway - we as relational beings that have a relationship with Christ, know right where to go when we cannot deal ... this turns brokenness into healing quickly.. the story gets simple - the healing is miraculous ... even when we are the only ones that KNOW!
Stand Outs:
"The Embrace" - Vocals could be a tiny bit better - they sound as if they have some kind of effect placed on them... possibly an echo (sometimes this sounds cool, but I did not find 'coolness' from it in this song) otherwise this song is very inviting and a beautiful visual of "The Embrace" of God - what a place to be!
"By Faith" - This time the effect on the vocals sounds really cool - it feels almost as if the guy is singing from a spacesuit or something (at the beginning of the song) ... I can just imagine the guy floating in space ... seemingly alone... what a time that one would be in need of faith!
"Fly" - "I was tainted and torn" and only a few seconds more into the song "I'll fly away with you(God)" often I feel this way too ... in the darkest times it seems to be the easiest to 'snuggle up' with God... and in that moment we are SO close.. it is amazing how our brokenness brings us closer to God, Not really the way God wants it all the time, we should WANT God that bad .. always - but the greater the need, the easier it is to want. (Supply and Demand?)
"Speak to Me" - I thought it worth mentioning that this song seems to bear the same spirit that I ALWAYS feel in the moments that are being sung about - a PERFECT emotion to music mix... I find it so very irritating when I feel that God is not there - when His voice eludes me.. .when I am ignoring Him, and have not realized it yet.
"Broken" - I would have thought in my interpretation of 'the journey' I described above ... that 'Broken" would be at the beginning ... or the middle and the turning from it would be as the album continued - but I was wrong, and I think I know why(maybe). I accepted Christ when I was 16 ... I was a zealous follower.. taking down anyone that needed a Jesus slap in the face ... not until I grew more mature did I realize that I NEVER BROKE ... that I gave my life to God, but never BROKE. I wish I could explain that better, but basically I was able to understand things of God, Worship, Lift up His name, read His word, witness and many other things... But until I BROKE .. until I was in the state that this song is about - I had no way to show LOVE .. - the world needs your love, the hope that THAT gives ... and it is birthed from your BROKENNESS!
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