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I Choose You
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I Choose You
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After a three-year layoff,
return with a new member (former
vocalist
, who replaced founding member
in early 2004) and a more aggressive, modern sound.
won't be mistaken for
or
, but its distorted guitars and drum loops do toughen up the candy shell surrounding the chocolate center that is the quartet's rich vocal harmony sound. Those musical elements don't do much to relieve the banal obviousness of their devotional lyrics, however: on
they waste a lot of breath reminding God that He's big and powerful ("You are so much more than me" -- well, duh), and on
they manage to make
's atonement sound like a janitorial project ("Oh cleanser of the mess I've made" -- yeesh). If you don't listen to the words very closely, though, you can float along perfectly happily on the dense and professionally gritty arrangements, the sumptuously rich vocal harmonies, and the radio-ready
hooks. And if you find yourself starving for lyrical substance, hold on until the last track, which features an extended reading from
. ~ Rick Anderson