At long last, we come to #1, my favorite album of the decade (so far). I don’t really need the parenthetical thought, as i am confident that nothing in the next 20 months will top this one.
1. A Collision or (3 + 4 = 7) – David Crowder Band
When our depravity meets His divinity, it’s a beautiful collision. – David Crowder
When this group of guys from Baylor University – my fellow Bears – hit the modern worship scene in the early 00s, i kept an eye on them & bought their debut album (Can You Hear Us?) out of collegiate solidarity, but didn’t really get into their music. So when my good friend Shane from Atlanta started hyping this album, before it was even released, i was intrigued but unmoved. Shane had heard several pre-released tracks and was convinced that this was the big one, the F5 CD. He was right.
Read this review at CT. I would be even more effusive. I couldn’t believe my ears. I had never heard anything like this record. Like the F5, i was blown away (sorry for the strained metaphor). I now consider this the finest album i’ve heard since 1987’s The Joshua Tree by U2.
I rate 3 tracks as 5-stars: the perfectly CCM-sensible Wholly Yours, the title track, and the fun rocker We Win! (a song the kids & i blasted on the car stereo when i drove them to school). And a whole bevy of other outstanding tracks, including Here Is Our King, Do Not Move, and Rescue is Coming. The song Our Happy Home concludes with a marvelous bit of sonic trickery (read about itin the link).
But like any top-notch album, it works best as a whole, in sequence. DCB starts off with a call to worship in Come & Listen, then segues into pure CCM territory, and then (after a detour into a section we’ll call “let’s show off all the musical styles we like and can play”) into modern rock worship. All in all, it adds up to masterpiece. Plain & simple.
Other links:
· DCB on myspace
· DCB page at Christianity Today
· Interview about the album and the tragedy of Pastor Lake’s electrocution
· DCB at wiki
· David on New Song Café, doing Here Is Our King and Wholly Yours
· I Saw the Light (yes, it’s on this album)
· Everybody Wants to go to Heaven (this is for my dad, and yes, it too is on this album, briefly)
· BBC Orchestra plays The Lark Ascending (DCB covers this, fugues it into a modern worship tune, and adds lyrics, closing the album)
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