The first real mystery in this listening experience. I can't remember buying this, or where it came from. I don't know anything about the band, or the context the album was released in. The internet is not helping me here, suggesting it made little impact at the time. As a result of this, I listened to this with no pre-conceptions. I vaguely remembered the chorus of the title track, but that was it.It's also the first worship album I've come across. They're always hard to be objective about, and difficult to appraise fairly. This album, though, is pretty good.
Musically, it is, at its core, a reasonably straight-forward indie-rock affair, but it's very well produced, with all sorts of loops and samples that enhance the songs without overpowering them. Lyrically, it's... fine. Not amazing, but solid enough. The trouble is, it's very obviouly worship music, but it's not especially congregational, putting the album solidly into a musical niche that always struggles to work. It's a shame - on this evidence, Brown Bear Music should have been able to carve out an identity as a slighlty more subtle Delirious - but it was always going to be the case. I'd listen again, though.
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