Album Of The Day: The Eleventh Hour by Jars Of Clay

Album Art of Jars of Clay's The Eleventh Hour album - A photo the sun setting down at the end of a long street lined with tall buildings, maybe in a place like New York City. It's taken from high up and far away so it's not too easy to make out details, but cars can be seen on the street, though from how small they are, it's hard to tell what time period the photo was taken in. Both sides of the photo are black, and the buildings make a bit of a cavern for the sun to shine through. There is a bunch of lens flares across the photo. In the bottom left, the band's name is in smaller, orange letters with faded edges, and the album title is below that with negative spacing between the letters, the letters actually overlap. Each word is in progressively whiter color and a large, sans-serif font.

Released on this day 23 years ago, this is the fourth studio album from rock/pop/Americana band Jars of Clay. It's not my favorite of their albums, but they also don't have a bad album either. The band stays squarely in the pop/rock territory on this album, with songs like "I Need You" and "Something Beautiful" being more pop and songs like "Disappear" and "Revolution" being more rock. In the song's lyrics, they definitely have lots of spiritual imagery, but also focus on relationships among people and getting to know, understand and love each other. It's a great album to listen through and showcases the band's excellent musicianship.

Release Year: 2002
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