Album Of The Day: The Reckoning by Needtobreathe

Album Art of Needtobreathe's The Reckoning album - On a hazy pre-dawn or post-sunset dusklight, a photo of four men standing in front of a field next to a bare tree's branches. Hanging on one of the branches and held by the left-most person are lanterns lit with a faint golden glow. All four men are wearing mostly black jackets and trousers, with white collared shirts visible underneath. They all look pretty serious in demeanor. At the top, printed in white outlined text over the blue-grey sky is the album title in huge letters, and in the bottom right corner in much smaller text it says 'Needtobreathe no. 4'. There's a thin black outline near the edges making a frame.

Released 15 years ago last month, this is the fourth album by southern rock band Needtobreathe. After seeing them live on the tour for their previous album, The Outsiders, I was a fan, and so I picked this album up on release day. It's not one I listen to very often, but it's pretty good and has some solid songs. The band definitely keeps it rockin' on songs like "Drive All Night" and "Keep Your Eyes Open". And there's some excellent slower songs from this Nashville/South Carolina rock band too like "Able" and "Wanted Man". The brothers Bear and Bo Rinehart who wrote these songs definitely include lots of religious language from their churched upbringing, but these songs are less preachy and more love songs and coming to grips with their humanity which use religious terms. Needtobreathe has been through many eras and this is them being their most straightforward southern rock, while more recent albums have been pop or even country primarily. I do like their next few studio albums and live recordings more than this, but it's a pretty solid album from their early years.

Release Year: 2011
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