Comments on: CD Review – Until the Whole World Hears – Casting Crowns http://www.jtindie.com/2009/11/cd-review-until-the-whole-world-hears-casting-crowns/ The Best in Indie Christian Music Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:43:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brian Wolters http://www.jtindie.com/2009/11/cd-review-until-the-whole-world-hears-casting-crowns/comment-page-1/#comment-1161 Brian Wolters Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:31:02 +0000 http://www.jtindie.com/?p=1540#comment-1161 Casting Crowns was the group that introduced and hooked me to CCM. The music was challenging and very easy to listen to. With each album, I was challenged to improve my relationship with God and encorage others. While Lifesong was a little light, The Altar and the Door was a strong follow up. Now comes Until The Whole World Hears and, while beautifully glorying God, doesn't have much to offer and is a step back for the Crowns. <br> <br>The album opens with the title track and it is by far the best track on the album and the only challenging song on it. Most of the rest of the album is slow, worship songs. Now, don't get me wrong...there is a place for these songs and what we have included here does uplift and focus on God. However, they are fairly dull tracks. Take the chorus to AT YOUR FEET...it is very weak. Being a Casting Crowns song, I expected a little more creativity and feeling and it just feels cold and impersonal. The same goes for the song MERCY. It just feels very generic and not what I expect from this group. Then there's GLORIOUS DAY. The song is full of standard clichés like "He Took The Nails For Me" and "Living He Loved Me, Dying He Saved Me." Again, this is so hard to review because these songs are nice but coming from Casting Crowns, it just feels lazy. The other songs on the album are good but still not up to the quality of past efforts. TO KNOW YOU is a good song but still, it feels incomplete, like it could be much more. <br> <br>A staple of Casting Crowns is to challenge us. The first album and The Altar and the Door both included several songs to challenge our faith and were very strong. Besides the quasi-challenging title track, there is nothing else that would be considered challenging. <br> <br>This is a hard album to review. I love this group and this isn't a terrible album. But isn't really "Casting Crowns" and the songs sound like warmed over worship songs. Casting Crowns was the group that introduced and hooked me to CCM. The music was challenging and very easy to listen to. With each album, I was challenged to improve my relationship with God and encorage others. While Lifesong was a little light, The Altar and the Door was a strong follow up. Now comes Until The Whole World Hears and, while beautifully glorying God, doesn't have much to offer and is a step back for the Crowns.

The album opens with the title track and it is by far the best track on the album and the only challenging song on it. Most of the rest of the album is slow, worship songs. Now, don't get me wrong…there is a place for these songs and what we have included here does uplift and focus on God. However, they are fairly dull tracks. Take the chorus to AT YOUR FEET…it is very weak. Being a Casting Crowns song, I expected a little more creativity and feeling and it just feels cold and impersonal. The same goes for the song MERCY. It just feels very generic and not what I expect from this group. Then there's GLORIOUS DAY. The song is full of standard clichés like “He Took The Nails For Me” and “Living He Loved Me, Dying He Saved Me.” Again, this is so hard to review because these songs are nice but coming from Casting Crowns, it just feels lazy. The other songs on the album are good but still not up to the quality of past efforts. TO KNOW YOU is a good song but still, it feels incomplete, like it could be much more.

A staple of Casting Crowns is to challenge us. The first album and The Altar and the Door both included several songs to challenge our faith and were very strong. Besides the quasi-challenging title track, there is nothing else that would be considered challenging.

This is a hard album to review. I love this group and this isn't a terrible album. But isn't really “Casting Crowns” and the songs sound like warmed over worship songs.

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