Album Of The Day: Signs Of Life by Steven Curtis Chapman

Album Art of Steven Curtis Chapman's Signs Of Life album - In the top left and stretching to nearly half the cover area, the letters of the album title are set on a black background in orange in various orientations. Some letters are smaller than others and some letters on their sides or sitting inside of other letters, so they're kinda jumbled up a bit. Below that, the artist's name is printed in small text. To the right of this main are is a portrait photo of a white man with light-colored, short hair wearing a black suit with large orange stripes. At the bottom is a blue texture of some sort.

Released 30 years ago today, this is the eighth studio album from Christian pop artist Steven Curtis Chapman. Like many of his albums before and since, Chapman crafts pop songs that are catchy and are built of his struggle to understand his Christian beliefs and put those ideas into action. But this album is, I think, one of his better albums. Songs like "Lord Of The Dance", "Let Us Pray" and "The Walk" are so good and were everywhere in Christian culture for years after this release, and the rest of the songs are excellent too. I like the slow burn of "Free" and "Celebrate You" is a great love song. Primarily this is pop/rock, but the country/bluegrass touches of this Kentucky-born, Nashville-based musician in this release bring a lot of unique character to this album's sound. It's not my favorite Steven Curtis Chapman album, but it's in my top five of his albums for sure.

Release Year: 1996
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