@echo: Good Monsters

Don't shun me or anything, but I went into the Christian bookstore the other day looking for VisualGrace. Though my searching for that book turned out void, I did pick up Lewis' Miracles which I will eventually dive into one of these days. I also heard a familiar song mixed with a familiar voice over the in-store radio... of which I never heard the two dance together before. The song happened to be All My Tears, a Julie Miller tune that I heard a few years ago on Austin City Limits [or maybe it was one of the many songs I stumbled on to as I illegally downloaded from Kazzaa.] The voice was Dan Haseltine from JOC. It is a mighty fine cover I must say... "better" than the original even. So after a few minutes listening to the following songs Naomi and I bought the album and have been enjoying it consistently. We don't have any other Jars album... I use to have the live/greatest hits one but that got lost in the shuffle between east and west coast. I have been disappointed with the whole of their previous albums is the past, though each album always boast a good song or two; their debut was great. Good Monsters is a nice surprise with drive, some melancholy reflection, and rememberable hooks.

Top picks on the album are the opening track Work [do you know what I mean when i say i don't want to be alone // all the demons look like prophets and i'm living out every word they say] and the resurrection of All My Tears [the wound this world left on my soul will all be healed and I'll be whole]. Over all my favorite track though is Surprise. The line, for a second i thought i saw your eyelids rise the moment something restless caught you by surprise, simultaneously reminds me of my mother who passed away a few months ago and of the feeling of a mysterious morning where a soul is stirred to someOne more; where the beginning of the end of the addiction of apathy has happened.

Love is wild for reasons