Album Description
David Crowder*Band, the highly accessible fan-favorites are back with their new release Church Music, arguably their most innovative effort to date. Packed with 17 full tracks, the band hopes this album serves as a reminder of the continual evolvement of music within the Church. David Crowder*Band is leading the way defining innovation, accessibility and fanconnectivity…. More >>
5 Responses to “Church Music”
If the goal of this new album was to go a completely different direction and use a completley different “sound”/style that sounds almost nothing like David Crowder…this album has achieved that goal. That being said, if you were feeling like DCB had peaked or stagnated or was getting boring, this may be the album for you. I just cannot wrap my mind around David Crowder with a disco drum beat and techno-noise with tons of keyboard sounds in the background. It’s not so much that I don’t like that he has changed his style, it’s that I don’t think it works for him given his voice and style of songwriting. It seems they are trying to appeal to the pop music/radio freindly/tween audience with this one. That’s a swing and a miss in my book. I’ll be selling it at the local used CD store after I burn “How He Loves” to my I-Tunes.
Rating: 1 / 5
I am a big David Crowder Band fan and have, I think, all his CDs. When I bought Church Music, I thought this might be more of the traditional hymns redone in a modern way. It was anything but that. In fact, I think it has almost nothing to do with church music at all. The words are difficult to understand and the music is not as catchy like most of his other work. There is basically no song that you will find yourself humming later on even if you tried.
Rating: 1 / 5
This album has a very different feel from the David Crowder I’m use to. Granted, every CD has actually changed quite a bit, which I think shows a lot of the bands creative ability, but this one was hard for me to like. Very electronic feel, which is harder for me to worship to personally. I think many people, probably especially musicians, can appreciate this, and will love it. But I love the “a collison” and “can you hear us” and “illuminate” David Crowder, this is different though. So I am totally not downplaying what might be good in other people’s minds, but if you are thinking of the old DC, I would say listen to some samples first before just purchasing. This to me persoanlly was the worst album he created, and didn’t really help lead me to worship the Lord.
-T
Rating: 2 / 5
DCB was my favorite worship music. But this album is just not what I’m used to from this great worship band. For some reason they’ve now moved their music to “techno-dance.” Almost every song is heavy on the digital techno sounds with a driving synthetic dance beat. It causes the songs to run together with no differentiation. If this is the direction of their music, sadly it will be the last DCB album I buy.
Rating: 2 / 5
I enjoy this album for multiple reasons:
1. This is probably his most Christ-centered album he has ever composed. I first heard this album through Pandora, and “The Veil” is saturated with Christocentric theology:
This is a love
Deep in the soul
Oh when you love, oh when you love
The veil is torn
Mystery pours
Down from above, down from above
And yet we are all damaged, it’s sure
And so there is grace
Hallelujah, we rejoice
What a Savior, What a King
Hallelujah, lift your voice
To our Savior, to our King
Amazing lyrics, no?
2. Musically, this is probably one of the best I’ve heard. The transitions in between songs are fairly smooth, different musical diversity (almost like TobyMac), ranging from jazz to hip-hop to pop to alternative rock.
All that to say, it’s WELL worth your money!
Rating: 5 / 5