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Babylon Mystery Orchestra - The Godless, The Godforsaken and the God Damned (last updated 5/31/10) Babylon Mystery Orchestra is sure to rattle some cages with their brand of politically incorrect gothic metal.The Big Motif - The Big Motif (last updated 5/31/10) The Big Motif brings big music in a small package.....Black Prairie - Feast of the Hunters' Moon (last updated 5/31/10) Combining the talents of three members of the Decemberists with a couple of Portland musician.
A perfect way to end the fruitful, revelatory Cash/Rubin relationship.Charmaine - Love Reality (last updated 5/11/10) It's great to have her back. 
Delirious? /Tim Hughes - 1+1: Cutting Edge 1 & 2 / Here I Am to Worship (last updated 5/31/10) Two classic worship artists for the price of one. 
Duke Special - The Stage, a Book & the Silver Screen (last updated 5/31/10) Special outdoes himself in blending vaudeville with higher art.Amy Grant - Somewhere Down the Road (last updated 5/31/10) A serious review of a serious work by an artist we all grew up with Amy goes down the road.... 
Kartick and Gotam - Business Class Refugees (last updated 5/17/10) Fresh electronica meets funk and Middle-Eastern folk with great crossover appeal. As good an introduction to world-beat as you are likely to get.Lara Landon - Beloved (last updated 5/31/10) What do think you would get if you mixed Middle Eastern and Mediterranean heritage? Passion. And that’s just what Laura Landon has truckloads of.Letters To God Soundtrack (last updated 5/11/10) You get the ambience of faith and hope. A job well done. 
Me In Motion -Me In Motion (last updated 5/31/10) Raw energy in motion 
Jimmy Needham - Nightlights (last updated 5/17/10) Just a nightlight against a blazing sunOwl City - Ocean Eyes (last updated 5/31/10) Where, I ask you, would the electronic music world be without Kraftwerk???Heidi Popp - Say I am Strong (2009) (last updated 5/11/10) Heidi Popp is a first generation Australian who is beginning to make her mark as a Christian female vocalist in this country.Prizzy Prizzy Please -Chroma Cannon (last updated 5/17/10) Any band that can create infectious punk rock without using a single electric guitar has piqued my taste buds.Ray&Co - White Noise Visions (last updated 5/11/10) On the Rise.Utah Smith - I Got Two Wings:Incidents and Anecdotes of the Two-Winged Preacher and Electric Guitar Evangelist (book with CD) (last updated 5/31/10) The whole package makes for a slim, but vital, volume to add to Christian music's development. 
Solas - The Turning Tide (last updated 5/31/10) Quietly immense, this Irish-American band goes straight to the heart. 
Still Pioneers - 01.28.1986 (last updated 5/31/10) Ethereal post rock can be that ever so gentle vehicle that lifts the listener to another realm.Tenth Avenue North - The Light Meets the Dark (last updated 5/31/10) The much-anticipated follow-on effort from 2008's most successful new Christian pop outfit. 
Umbrella Tree - The Letter C (last updated 5/31/10) Piano, vocals, bass, guitar and drums form the foundation of the music, but there are all sorts of other things tossed into the cauldron. 
Uniform Motion - Life (last updated 5/17/10) Wispy, dreamy, folky stuff - with smart pictures.Dan Wallace - Den of Maniacs (last updated 5/17/10) Once again, we get the slightly askew brilliance of Dan Wallace on Den of Maniacs, a project sure to delight some and to confuse others... 
Shannon Wexelberg - I Have a Song (last updated 5/31/10) Encouragement wrapped in hopeThe Yes Pleases - From Whence It Came(last updated 5/31/10) If choosing what seems the best of different styles makes you multifarious, then the Yes Pleases are eclectic?
KickBend - Faith - Hope - Love Parts Per Million - Stop Motion Routine Homecoming - 3-Song EP Showbread - The Fear of God The Phantom Tollbooth finally reached the point where we can't do a full review every CD we received. We thought we'd say something about the most of them 
Rick Altizer - Take Care of Me – The Rise(last updated 6/9/10) An ecclesiastical concept album from a master of rock-edged pop Rick Altizer is back! 
Altan - 25th Anniversary Celebration (last updated 7/25/10) Can you really play Celtic music sedately? The widescreen sound loses momentum. 
Austin’s Bridge - Times Like These (last updated 7/21/10) Inspiration for times like theseBleu - A Watched Pot /Four/AWP EP (last updated 7/21/10) The talent here cannot be denied. 
The Bluesmasters - The Bluesmasters featuring Mickey Thomas (last updated 7/22/10) Good blues for the moment with Mickey Thomas and The Bluesmasters.... 
Les Copeland - Don't Let the Devil In (last updated 7/22/10) Les Copeland has the makings of a distinctive guitarist in the blues tradition, and this is a welcome and entertaining debut. 
Delirious? - Farewell Show Live in London (last updated 7/20/10) A fitting and emotional end to a superb career this really does them justice.Disaffection - Begin The Revolution (last updated 7/21/10) Disaffection gets straight to business with an album that is guaranteed to send old school metal heads to a local emergency room with head banging-induced whiplash. 
Fjord Rowboat - Under Cover of Brightness (last updated 7/20/10) This is shoegaze zone-out at its best. 
Future of Forestry - Travel III (last updated 7/19/10) Less immediate than its predecessor, this is rich sonic fare that grows familiar with time. 
Glass Harp - Glass Harp Live at the Beachland Ballroom 11/01/08 (last updated 7/22/10) Keaggy, Sferra and Pecchio all get an 'A' on this report card – guess what for......? 
Amy Grant - Somewhere Down the Road (last updated 7/19/10) A serious review of a serious work by an artist we all grew up with Amy goes down the road.... 
Gristle - Cold Blue Sky (last updated 7/25/10) A must-buy for fans of Galactic Cowboys and Atomic Opera 
Hillsong Live - A Beautiful Exchange(last updated 7/21/10) Nears the excitement of the ‘Passion’ worship series.Jennifer Knapp - Dive In (last updated 6/9/10) Jennifer Knapp, the Dove award winning and Grammy nominated artist, has returned after a long sabbatical with a soul searching, lay-it-out-on-the-line album.Jet Velvet - Jet Velvet (last updated 7/21/10) Jet Velvet starts out strong, and picks up speed toward the middle of the disc, but... 
The John Jorgenson Quintet - One Stolen Night (last updated 7/21/10) The spirit of The Quintet of The Hot Club of France lives on in _One Stolen Night...._ 
The Literary Greats - Ocean, Meet the Valley (last updated 7/21/10) Darrell Mansfield - Gospel Blues (last updated 7/26/10) Gospel and blues from Darrell Mansfield and company. A no-frills master class....Marbin - Marbin (last updated 7/21/10) Armed basically with a guitar and sax, Dani Rabin and Danny Markovitch create a jazzy sonic dreamworld... 
Sandra McCracken- In Feast or Fallow (last updated 7/19/10) Everything old is made new again! Or simply: Great stuff!! 
Moonlit Sailor - So Close To Life (last updated 7/25/10) When music resonates deep within you, especially of the instrumental post-rock variety, repeat sonic adventures come whatever the mood.My Silent Wake / The Drowning - Black Lights & Silent Roads (last updated 7/21/10) Two doom masters unite for one heavy platter of extreme metal.Dolly Parton - Letter To Heaven:Songs of Faith and Inspiration (last updated 7/20/10) Per her Christianity, Dolly Parton is a strange bird. 
Andrew Peterson - Counting Stars (last updated 7/25/10) Lost in wonder at these stars 
Procol Harum - A Salty Dog (Re-master) (last updated 7/20/10) A dramatically diverse disc that shows the signs of a contentious future... 
Raging Grace - Spitfire (last updated 7/20/10) These guys don’t have any pretensions about themselves, but they play blues-rock like they were born in the late 1940s and they don’t try to polish that up too much either. 
Robert Randolph and the Family Band - We Walk This Road (last updated 7/20/10) Robert Randolph and the Family Band commence their second decade on a high note, and, if this is a sign of things to come, then it will be a rich one indeed. .jpg)
Nic Stevens - Willow Run (EP) (last updated 7/21/10) Minnesota-based youth pastor Stevens' five-song Willow Run outing is something of a study in opposites.Josh Turner - Haywire (last updated 6/9/10) Three albums into his national career and Josh Turner has well established himself as a commercial country music good guy. 
ULF - Entertainers & Soldiers (last updated 7/21/10) Ulf Christiansson and his band mates in Jerusalem were at the very start of my Christianity. 
Joel Willoughby - Rain & Pocket Change (EP) (last updated 7/21/10) Willoughby's seven-song EP demands the listener's close attention and rewards them handsomely for their labor. 
Tim Woods - The Blues Sessions (last updated 7/22/10) Beaucoups of blues from Tim Woods and friends.....
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