Album Of The Day: The Mission Bell by Delirious?

Album Art of Delirious?'s The Mission Bell album - A very detailed collage of different graphics. The top corner is a bright blue, but the bottom left is a golden brown and most of it is a gradient between that. Across the middle is the black silhouette of a walled city with trees on the left and buildings of various types on the right. some industrial and some more public-oriented like a church or office tower. Queued up in the gates to the city are the silhouette of many people. And drawn on top of all this is many circles and lines of various colors, an illustration of a flower, and more. In the top left, in black it has the band's artist name in its rectangular word-mark, and below it the album title in black as well.

Released 20 years ago this coming Friday, this is the sixth studio album from British Christian rockers Delirious?. (Yes, they have a question mark at the end of their name.) The band that started out as a modern worship band had spent a time being a rock band, and by this time, they blended a bit of both, having the sound of a rock band but the lyrics of a modern worship band for the most part. While this album wasn't as exciting as their rock band albums in my opinion, it's quality music and I still love listening to this band, no matter which album it is. "Now Is The Time", "Paint The Town Red", and "Here I Am Send Me" are excellent rock 'n' roll songs with a good message. "Our God Reigns" and "All This Time" are a bit more chill and excellent anthems of faith. And songs like "Miracle Maker" and "Take Off My Shoes" bring some of that epic worship rock like "Obsession" and "Investigate" did on previous albums. Lyrically, it's not just songs of praise to God, as some talk about social issues around the world and the imperfections of this world God gave us. I do feel like I loved and were more affected by their earlier lyrics while these seem a bit more safe and predictable, but musically, the band kept pushing themselves on albums like this. There's a reason they're one of my top bands and it's hard to believe it's already been 20 years since this was released.

Release Year: 2005
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