Remedy

It's been a good six days since this album has been playing in my CD player. Overall, it's a wonderful album--Crowder meeting the bar that he has set for himself musically. That said, the album is tragically way too short.


Remedy is David Crowder* Band's 4th full length album (don't even tell me that B Collision and Sunsets & Sushi were albums). As such, Mr. Crowder has established himself as one of the most distinguishable song writers in the Christian spectrum today. Thus the expectations for Remedy were high and fortunately for all of us he meets them.

Musically speaking, the album is a delight. The songs range very well. "You never let go" and "Surely we can change" emanate a really serene tone. Brightly contrasting we have songs like "We won't be quiet" and "...Neverending..." with their, how shall we say, more upbeat personalities. "Rain Down" was kind of a head scratcher for me. David did the song already on a previous album but felt it worthy to do it again here. Head scratching material indeed. "Oh for a thousand tongues to sing" shows why Crowder is so great at rearranging hymns. The little refrain he added was stellar also. "Can you feel it?" is no better example of the maturity in David Crowder Band. It's quite edgy yet remains profoundly simple. It's really great. "Remedy", perhaps my favorite song on the album, simply penetrates the heart.

All of these personalities are grouped together for Remedy, and you have a really great album. The sad thing is that it's much too short. As is, the album is somewhere in the area of 45 mins. Take "Rain Down" away and you have basically 40 mins. Although the album is a delight, it's also kind of like a tease. I would've gladly waited another 6 months for another album as long as A Collision but I'm not complaining. :)

Last, one thing I wanted to draw attention to was the song writing of Dave. If you sit and listen to a lot of the words on the various songs, many will strike the most harmonious chords in your heart. It's as if Crowder, in full circle, has a compliation of songs that are appropriate for most walks in life.
Most profound, perhaps, is surely we can change. The fact that we, as Holy Spirit-powered ambassadors, have the ability to be something to someone.

To those in fear, we can be brave.
To those in pain, we can be serene.
And so on.


Maybe this is what Crowder is getting at the whole time. The fact that we can be (and should be) the Remedy.

Interesting.