Released 25 years ago today, this is the fifth album by folk-rock band Caedmon's Call. In the previous five years, the band had become one of the top Christian bands thanks to their acoustic-rock full-band sound, a whole decade before Mumford & Sons came on the scene. With three vocalists who switched off lead and a large band making lush instrumentation, they've always been a fun band, and their songwriting was fresh and thought-provoking. On this album, though, they take a bit of a different track. Instead of their normal style of personal folk songs with Christian themes, they are singing more modern worship songs in the band's musical style. The songs here are mostly new to the fans and not just the popular new church standards, though most are not written by band members. There's a few classic hymn texts with new melodies by Sandra McCracken, plus some new songs written by Kemper Crabb and Aaron Senseman and some by the band's Joshua Moore. Oh, and there's a new live version of their hit from the year before, "God Of Wonders", from the City On A Hill special event album. This is definitely not my favorite album from Caedmon's Call (their better stuff was released in the 5 years before this), but it's not bad music either.

Release Year: 2001
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