Transcendent Declaration
Posted June 27, 2008
By IronJedi,
Ever catch yourself looking up into the star spangled night sky and feel the enormity and beauty of the cosmos crash in on you? The Glorious Unseen's Tooth & Nail debut, Tonight the Stars Speak, is a selection of those transcendent moments committed to music.
The band shies away from the temptation to merely update "worship" with a sound that echoes contemporary pop/rock and instead chooses to capture, in substantive music, expressively poignant, sincere worship. Ben Crist and company bare their souls to God and, by proxy, invite the listener to join their heart-cry to God.
Crist's heart-wrenchingly delivered, husky rasp is a baritone suggestion of DMB's Dave Matthews and Coldplay's Chris Martin. His vocals perfectly compliment the album's laconic, honestly raw lyrics and intense musical quietude.
President Calvin Coolidge observed, "We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen." There's more than a subtle hint that this line of thinking permeates the efforts of The Glorious Unseen on Tonight the Stars Speak: It is yearningly passionate, true worship- reflective, affecting and intensely personal songs.
Devotees of Chasen, Downhere, Shane & Shane, Starfield and Watermark would do themselves a great service by getting this disc!
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