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Artist: Nate Huss
Label: Slanted Records
URL: www.natehuss.com
Time: 11 Tracks 42:03
Nate Huss is the most recently projected “rising star” of Contemporary Christian Music in 2007. He is a gifted musician who plays rock and roll with strong Christian messages. He is being touted as the next Christian rock artist to make it big, as bands like Sanctus Real and Relient K have over the past five years. Does this prediction have merit? Well, read on folks read on.
“Spotlight” opens the album with a blistering mix of guitars and Huss’s strong rock and roll voice. It is by far a standout moment on the entire album, and a good choice for a leadoff track!
“Down To Love” talks about how such a large amount of meaningful parts of our lives all boil down to the importance of showing love to another person.
“You Still Know My Name” features a catchy, echoing guitar riff that calls to mind the Edge without sounding like Huss is trying to copy U2’s sound.
The title track is where the overall theme of this album is first brought to light. It is the first of many songs on this project in which Huss reflects upon how lost a person is without God’s Grace and Love. While this is a very true statement, I find myself growing a bit bored with the same theme being used over and over again. Musically I am very happy with what Huss has done, but find this debut a bit lacking when it comes to lyrics.
The exception to these includes the final two cuts: “I’m Fine” and “Your Own.”
“I’m Fine” is a song about the realization that no Christian is worthless in God’s eyes, while “Your Own” is Huss’s love song to his birth mom whom he has never met, as he states, “my heart still beats because of your blood.”
Overall here, Nate Huss’s debut shows very much potential for a promising future in Christian Rock. However, his debut comes up lacking in overall lyrical potential.
James Morovich
6/13/07
