If you’re in an alt-worship band not called David Crowder Band, I’ve got bad news for you: David Crowder Band makes better music than you do. It’s nothing personal, but it is hard to imagine anyone matching the energy, creativity, versatility, and depth of DCB. Nowhere are these qualities more evident than Remedy, the new album in stores today.
Instrumentally, Remedy features the usual suspects (guitars, bass, drums) as well as violin, keys, synthesizers, piano, drum loops, and turntables—let’s face it, you won’t find a more unlikely but effective amalgamation on the Christian & Gospel rack at Borders. Lyrically, the album explores well-known attributes of God while mostly avoiding traditional CCM cliches. Again and again, Remedy’s 10 tracks affirm and explore important truths: God is good, God is glorious, God is ever-present, and God is our Redeemer
The album’s title track celebrates Christ as the remedy for mankind’s fallen state. “Such perfect love come for the broken and beat, for the wounded and weak,” Crowder reflects in his familiar tenor. The track is a perfect example of DCB’s propensity for crafting heartfelt and uplifting tunes about God. But the song’s most revealing lyric comes four and a half minutes in, when Crowder suggests that the Church is charged not only with sharing the remedy, but with being the remedy in our world. Ever so subtly, Crowder sheds light on why the album was titled Remedy in the first place. Because we’ve been redeemed by a great God, Crowder seems to say, we should share the gospel of hope and love with our culture in both word and deed. The final track, “Surely We Can Change,” offers something of a prescription:
Where there is pain
Let us bring grace
Where there is suffering
Bring serenity
For those afraid
Let us be brave
Where there is misery
Let us bring them relief
And surely we can change …
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For David Crowder Band, professional success, personal salvation, and a great new album aren’t enough. They want to change the world. For more information visit DavidCrowderBand.com.