Remedy

Each album by DCB is just a little different. This one really mixed it up from what I was expecting. It to me not as user friendly as their earlier stuff, but we all grow in different directions.

Funny, but maybe it takes time for each DC*B release to become my favorite as I didn't love "A Collision" compared to "Illuminate" and I don't love "Remedy" compared to "A Collision", yet. Certainly some songs standout on "Remedy" like "Never Let Go", "Surely We Can Change", "Can You Feel It", "The Glory Of It All" and "Everything Glorious". Another gem by DC*B. I'm guessing in another few months this will be my favorite.

First, I'd like to establish that I have listened to a broad range of music growing up as a classical violinist and pianist. I have listened to all types of "classical" music, world music, secular music through the ages, hip hop, independent artists. I know a lot about music and there is not a song on this album I don't love.
At first I was surprised that this album didn't create a greater applause but understand why now. The vocal style is more 80's rock, not clear and pretty but emotional and good nonetheless. Next, the style in which this album was produced is similar to some energetic electronica sounds popular today that you'd find in secular bands such as Postal Service, Psapp, Bitter:Sweet. I love this about the album because SO much Christian music sounds the same. DCB, however, ventures outside of the stale standard rock band set that it seems these unadventurous Christian reviewers are missing. Last, this is an AMAZING worship album and I don't know how someone can say that it doesn't inspire praise.

By Track:
Glory of It All - Great for worship. Talks about God's enduring love for us all.
Can You Feel It? - Topic: Can you feel God's presence surrounding you?
Everything Glorious - beautiful love song to God.
---Neverending... -- A fun worship song which points to how God's divine nature and our reason for life centers in His never-ending existence.
Never Let Go - A passionate ballad about God's steadfastness
O, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing - Lyrics sound like a hymn but a contemporary mix
Rain Down - An impassioned cry to God set in a minor key
We Won't Be Quiet - Another fun worship song overflowing with God's joy
Remedy - A ballad about how God is the only Remedy for our troubled world
Surely We Can Change - A wonderful ballad and my favorite track on this album (though it's hard to choose). Everyone I think can relate to feeling helpless in the face of the world's depravity. This beautiful song sings as a prayer.

If you are completely adverse to electronic orchestration I can understand disliking this album. It definitely has a lot of energy and should appeal to plenty teenage Christ followers. I have definitely had many wonderful moments drawing near to God with the music and would hate for you to miss out on account of reviewers with obsolete taste in music.

Remedy is no remedy for the poor styling, poor vocal quality, and lack of worship this band brings. The band sound brings a jittery delivery that does not engender worship.

In years to come we will look around and people will say, David Crowder - who? Some of the songs will endure, but only when redone in a truly worshipful style.

'Remedy' is a well done CD with several good praise songs.

There are few standout tracks, but none are bad either. The best song is 'Everything Glorious'. Perhaps my expectations were too high after his album 'A Collision', but this one just does not seem that impressive to me. It is really pretty average.

For anyone who is not familiar with this group, I would definitely recommend their album, A Collision. It is a 'must have' for any Christian music fan.

The songs of this project point to God as the Remedy this world desperately needs. The lyrics are honest and heartfelt petitions to the Creator in the face of hardship.

DC*B experienced tragedy in the death of their pastor and this recording is a testament to the healing power of the cross. Many of the tracks give a voice to feelings of sadness and frustration while simultaneosly reaffirming faith in the sovereign power of God. Only an artist with the heart of David could accomplish this. David Crowder is a modern day psalmist who brings his offering before the Lord just as David did in the book of Psalms. The result is a CD filled with songs that inspire worship.

As a worship leader I had the opportunity to use many of these songs in congregational worship. Aside from the corporate worship opportunities, I appreciate what this album has done in my private devotion times as well. I continue to learn what it means to trust Jesus, this CD has helped me more than I can express.

David Crowder represents the best in the modern worship movement. And this project is his best yet.

This is my first David Crowder CD. I've been purchasing Christian Contemporary music for the past decade, but somehow had looked over the David Crowder CDs. This music has such depth of feeling in every word that is sung. Listening to this music is like taking a spiritual journey. You hear it, you feel it, and you can envision Christ in your life. I've just ordered two other CDs from Amazon because I was so impressed. Although, I have room for six CDs in my car, I find myself going back to this CD over and over again. Great CD!

This is a great CD!
Behind the great music on this CD is an inspiring message.

I have to say I loved "A Collsion", yet DC*B seems to top themselves with another amazing CD. From the message of hope in "Glory of it all" to "Surely we can Change" & "Remedy" the message is clear on the impact we can make by helping to bring hope!

Yet DC*B artistically relays this simple message in a compelling way... A way that ultimately "I cannot hold it in..."

I own all of the Crowder CDs and books. I love them all...except this one. I gave it a chance, but it felt like a CD full of "filler" songs. None of the tracks stood out to me. Very disappointing...

I'll start out by saying that I think most of the critical praise bestowed on The David Crowder Band is justly deserved. Crowder is a forward thinker, an artist, a true worshipper, and an intellectual. The last album, A Collision, thrust the modern worship genre into totally uncharted territory. It was progressive, epic, heartfelt, inspiring, and original. Many have seen Remedy as a return to form of sorts, resorting back to 10 back-to-basics songs and losing the lofty concept motif. The results, in my opinion, are a mixed bag. The songs stand well enough on their own, but put together they play like a B-Sides record. Who else could put soaring arena rock, bluegrass, techno/nintendo rock, ballads, and reworked hymns on the same 10 song record? I rest my case. On A Collision the sheer number of tracks and the concept weighed out the mediocre material. Remedy lacks the cohesiveness of A Collision for that reason - there are not enough foundational tracks to make the toss-off tracks seem great. Don't get me wrong here. I like this record and listen to it often. In fact, I think "The Glory Of It All" is the best thing they've done yet. It's just that in light of what we all know DCB are capable of, this just doesn't hold up quite as well as a record. Also, the production is flashy, flashy, flashy - lots of time went into bells and whisltes, but the bottom line - good songs individually; pretty uneven as a record.

David Crowder is unreal. If you're not sure what to think of his music yet, go out and by Illuminate, A Collision, and Remedy. If you're not hooked by then, you will never like his music. It's the kind that grows on you... and once you understand who he is as a musician and figure out what he's trying to accomplish with each "conceptual" album, you'll be on the wagon.

this cd is really amazing the songs are very God centered, the praise genuine. It has a variety of upbeat and softer songs which were all very well done!! I really enjoy this music Great band.

I was dissapointed with this CD. The audio has some very strange and deliberate insertions of whoever did the recording must have thought they were being creative. It is my opinion that it was not creative at all, but it ruined it completely. Track one, one of my favorite songs "The Glory of it All" sounds like someone unplugged the power and hurried to plug it back in. This occured a few times. I don't know if this artist does a normal version, but if he does maybe he could send me one for free. Buy it? Yes or No? I guess it depends on your age. I wouldn't.

A great CD, DCB does it again delivering a euphonic blend of rock,techno and soul-felt lyrics. My only qualm is that it is a little more techno centered than I like but it is still a testimony to an awesome band who is dedicated to an awesome God.

good solid album from the most ugliest man to come out of waco, tx since pat green............

Great modern, inventive worship music is hard to come by these days, after all, it seems like you've heard it all before. But all that changed when David Crowder Band first hit shelves. And this release finally cements his place in CCM history. From start to finish, this is the best praise and worship album of the past two years, no contest. Yeah, it's that good.

For those of you who were fans of "A Collision" this is not B Collision. In fact, this album takes the best parts of the first section of "A", and cranks it up to 11, for ten songs. All the songs are number 1 hit material, but it doesn't feel like it. Every song has that Crowder touch to them, and they stick in your head long after listening.

"The Glory of It All" is your typical church worship song, it immediately sets up a worshipful mood, only to move to more of a youth group praise song with "Can You Feel It." "Everything Glorious" is a simple and catchy song, that's pretty lite in feel. It has a pretty great easy listening feel to it in the car. "...Neverending..." has the feel of "Forever and Ever etc" from the last album, which is weird, because it's basically the same type of song, and the same basic message.

But where Crowder really shines in this album is the ballad type songs like "You Never Let Go." These type of songs have a great feel to them, and Crowder really takes the cake here letting his vocals really shine, but never taking the glory off of God.

"O, For A Thousand Tongues To Sing" has that familiar element too since it's a classic hymn. This is a great update, and the listener is never lost in the song.

It's hard to pick a highlight, but "We Won't Be Quiet" is a good pick. It's a great upbeat tune that is a jumble from every element from the last album, minus "I Saw The Light". However, it's so good, it could have lasted longer, like the rest of the album.

Overall, if you're looking for some fresh worship music, look here. It's probably the best of the past two years. The whole album continually carries a hint of familiarity, yet makes every song new at the same time. I only buy a praise and worship album if it's one that's truly original, and redefines the genre, and this album certainly fits that criteria. Expect it in my CD collection very soon.

The last line from the album is "The whole world is about to change." Well, I can't argue with that, especially after they listen to "Remedy." It raises the bar for all praise and worship albums to come.

The new Remedy CD is simply amazing. The tracks are refreshing, uplifting, upbeat, and divinely inspired. My favorites are "Can You Feel It?", "...neverending...", "Rain Down", which won't allow you to stand still while listening to them, but I have to confess 'Never Let Go' can bring me to tears. "We Won't Be Quiet" has Ted Nugent as a surprise guest guitarist. This CD has something for everyone, unless you are looking for the "tame" or "boring" that you think Christian music should be. I highly recommend this CD.

I am writing this review in response to the overwhelmingly positive reviews I have been seeing here and elsewhere (e.g., worship magazines, etc.).

After "A Collision", I fell in love with the David Crowder Band (DCB). I mean, what other modern worship leader is covering Sufjan on their CDs? Brilliant. "A Collision" was a true progression - experimental sounds were added tastefully, the album both rocked heavily (You are my Joy) and was very delicate (Come and Listen). I had high expectations for Remedy.

My expectations were not met, for several reasons:

1) There are only 10 tracks. 1 track (O for a Thousand Tongues) is a hymn redone and is not totally original. 1 track (Everything Glorious) has been released before. So, there are really 8 truly new, original tracks. That was disappointing. That said, the redone "O for a Thousand Tongues" is pretty good.

2) "Never Let Go" is strikingly similar to the Redman song "You Never Let Go". The theme is nearly identical and the chorus is very similar.

3) "...neverending..." is okay, but is hyper-catchy and poppy, a genre I thought DCB would move away from after "A Collision". It's a pretty fun track, but its short and reminds me a lot of "Forever and Ever" from "A Collision".

4)"Rain Down" is a cool song, but the theme of God "raining down" has been overdone in my opinion. DCB is a source of creative and fresh lyrics and this song (along with "Never Let Go") are a step backwards.

5) "Surely we can Change" is a really good song. Nice closer. Also, the opener "The Glory of it All" is equally stimulating - creative, musically interesting and well done.

Overall, I give this album 2 stars mostly because of my expectations. If this had come pre-"A Collision", I might give it 3 or possibly 4. But the relatively few songs and the over-done themes make for just a average CD. It's kind of like a slightly worse version of "Illuminate", a CD released by DCB 4 years ago.

If you love DCB, you will still like this CD, but if you loved "A Collision" like I did, you will probably be disappointed.

The current offering from David Crowder and company is simply awesome. The tracks show a devotion to God and to a true heart of worship. This is not just a Christian rock album but a worship album, not in the "traditional" sense of what a worship album is but in my opinion it is one. You will not be disappointed, go ahead and buy it. I was fortunate enough to see them on the remedy club tour, and it was amazing.

Thank God for creating people like David Crowder who can put words and music together to bring us all to a higher place! May God be glorified by the talent and gift of this artist and all the other Christian artist in the Contempory Christian music genre!!

Some people seem to not like this album because they feel it's not A Collision. This is in no way fair because the truth is, it isn't another A Collision but it was never meant to be. The two albums are different and they are both amazing for their own reasons. That's what makes David Crowder so good in my opinion. None of their albums really sound like the last, but are all good music. I enjoyed this record a lot and am glad it wasn't just another A Collision.

Wow. I've always enjoyed DCB, but these last two albums have been phenomenal! Such amazing, thought-provoking lyrics, incredible musicality, and (of course) amazing new songs to praise our Creator!

David Crowder Band has done it again. They continue to pump out radio-ready songs that are culturally relevant and Bible-centered. The link between good, theological lyrics and catchy melodies and rockin' riffs have been mastered by the David Crowder Band. "Remedy" is a must-have!

David Crowder ended his previous album, the epic "A Collision," with this short and simple phrase. It is in his latest release "Remedy" that he fulfills just that, and does it remarkably well.

Where "A Collision" was a masterful and complex album that touched the heart on every level possible, "Remedy" excels on a completely different level. It is in the "simplicity" of this new offering that allows the listener to immediately be drawn in to the heart and arms of our savior, the Remedy. From the beginning track "Oh the Glory of it All" to the ending track "Surely We can Change," and every song in between, it is nearly impossible not to sing along with the words of hope and authenticity.

Accessibility is key for this new album, and in many ways returns to what made his previous albums such as "Illuminate" and "Can You Hear Us?" loved to begin with. The church should immediately find many new songs to include in their weekly worship time and the album even calls the church together in many ways to stand up and finally be all that we can be through God's power and grace.

There is a little bit for everyone on this album. Rocking stadium anthems ("We Won't Be Quiet" and "Neverending,"), radio-friendly songs ("Everything Glorious"), hymns ("O, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing"), and re-recorded favorites ("Rain Down" and "Oh The Glory of it All") will be sure to please. It is in the simple and toned-down songs where "Remedy" truly succeeds, however. Songs such as the beautiful "Never Let Go" that praise God's constant faithfulness, and the title track "Remedy" and "Surely We can Change" that call praise God's grace and love on us while calling us to bring the Remedy to the world and change something in return.

"Remedy" is in many ways the perfect follow up to last year's "A Collision" and start to finish everything that makes David Crowder one of the top songwriters and musicians of all music today. Crowder even has Ted Nugent make a guest appearance on the album. There isn't much not to love about "Remedy."

Thank you David Crowder Band for this incredible CD. The Praise just keeps getting better, changing with each new release. This CD has touched the part of my soul that rejoices and praises God, and the part that aches from pain all at the same time. Keep letting that spirit roll guys, you are so real. Thanks for this gift.

Once again The David Crowder Band has not ceased to amaze me. This CD is truly a work of sweet art. They have once again created a worship album that is not dry and one can rock out to. Hats off to you DCB.