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I’ve never commented on an album on here but here goes.
Mysterious Things by Evan Wickham is the album. I’ve been listening to this almost daily now for a week. Its in the category of worship music but the music is varied. If you know Ryan Adams’ music you will know what to kind of expect – originality and uniqueness. Ballad, rock, pop, and country influences the whole tracklist. Beautiful piano drives, anthemic riffs, feminine back vocals, melancholy to happy notations are all found in this soundbox. Evan has a voice that’s very warm and honest and carries the song into intimate melodic places. Compositions are dynamic, different and creative than most worship you hear. But that’s just the sound part.
Lyrically its just as solid. Wonderful truths and insight about God are revealed in all of the songs. Personal desire and passion are found behind every line yearning to be caught up with Christ. The words are simple, easy to learn and they invite the listener to almost automatically sing along after the first listen. One of my favorite lines includes, “Jesus Christ you laid your life upon MY cross…”.
Supposedly this album has been out for some time now…since ‘05 I believe. I’ve known about this guy for probably a year from cross browsing from other artists webs and going to several of his online pages. So a few of his songs I heard before. I finally decided to pay the man for his art. I immediately took to all of the songs. Each song was a masterpiece. Its one of those albums you enjoy from first to last second.
IT appears he’s an unsigned artist so he’s not marketed as most popular talents so his music is not played through many airwaves. But I’ve known others to become popular despite, such as Shane Barnard. I really believe he’s got potential to become a prolific writer much inline of the likes of Mullins, Hall, Barnard, Crowder, Tomlin and others.
One other bit of info I found is that he’s in the studio for his sophomore project (Above the Sky?). I’m sure many have been waiting much longer for it than I.
