Music Archives

For contemporary worship music with a fresh musical style, Out of the Sea by Heritage Hill is a welcome collection of songs.

When we find ourselves in a period of limbo, needing to wait, we may reframe our situations to make us feel in control, but the truth is, we’re powerless.

Kendrick’s latest album offers less resolution for his fans. And that’s okay.

Perhaps the healthiest way to cope at this point is to remember Chris Cornell’s place in our lives.

Deliverance & Doubt by South of Royal is a clean collection of synth-pop/rock songs with catchy hooks that would feel at home on any new Hillsong or Coldplay album.

After all, grief isn’t rational or given to nice, neat organization.

Noname’s attentiveness to the world challenges and subverts an all too familiar understanding of salvation.

Ideally, it seems, worship music should be written and performed by attractive young people sporting angular haircuts, tight T-shirts, and tattoos.

It’s one thing to be stuck in a trench, but it’s exhausting to expect perfection of your fellow soldier, slogging in the same mud as you.

Christmas feels more like Christmas when Mannheim Steamroller is playing.

If Christmas means anything, Low seems to be saying, it has to begin by being honest about the heartache all around us.

The album Time Without Measure takes on activism with intimate, challenging lyrics in the style of Sufjan Stevens and The Mountain Goats.

In ‘Remember Us to Life,’ Regina Spektor encourages us to remember the beauty in the world and our capacity to give grace to others in the same way grace was given to us.

Leonard Cohen devoted his career to telling us that, in the midst of human experience, pain is rarely devoid of beauty and beauty is rarely devoid of pain.

Singing at the All Ages Karaoke Night at Danny’s on Douglas, I was given a glimpse of this kingdom where we are bound to each other and to God.

Okkervil River’s Away is a record of lead singer Will Sheff’s kenosis : his self-emptying.