The Christian Music Thread Genre • Page 108

Gotta add the 116 comp "The Gift" to this discussion, it's so so good.

 

To be fair, on YouTube Music that I use it's not under their artist profile. Looks like user uploaded maybe?

 

extremely underrated


both this comment and the band

 

Reflecting on my favourite albums of 2024. What were everyone's top releases that come under the broad Christian music / Christian adjacent heading?

I've got the following in my top 20: Jon Foreman, Benjamin Daniel, So Much Hope Buried., My Epic, Andrea Marie and Ethan Nathaniel.

Full write up and reflections from last year here. Hopefully you'll find something new or interesting here.

 

Anyone listened to Falling Up’s new album yet?

 

Did not know there was a new one. Will definitely check it out

 

This looks cool, particularly for the old school fans.

 

Been on a Showbread kick last few days. I forgot how many of their albums are great. Last few years when I want their music I've been reaching for Showbread is Showdead. But man, they really had a lot of bangers.

 

Good Showbread is very good. Mediocre Showbread is still very good compared to other bands in their genre.

 

I remember when everyone hated Age of Reptiles because it wasn’t No Sir Nihilism
Is Not Practical but I’ve always enjoyed that album a lot. I think those two and perhaps The Fear of God were my favourites.

Anorexia Nervosa is a good listen every so often.

Sadly didn’t enjoy their Come&Live output as much but I do like Showbread Is Showdead

 

I actually did two full listens to Age of Reptiles today. My memory was it was so "slow" and "tame". Which may be true compared to No Sir, but man it was a great listen.

I have found that Anorexia Nervosa is still the only full lengths I just can't make it through. Find them very laborious and uninteresting for some reason.

Love Cancer and Fear of God, think Showbread is Showdead might still honestly be my favorite though. That album just hits perfectly for me.

 

Kinda fell off of Showbread after Josh's more recent work. Not really vibing with his lyrics anymore.

 

yeah isn't the singer kind of a known tool?

 

I always thought of him as pretty accepting of most anybody and then the latest album lyrically seemed pretty backhanded and critical of deconstruction if I remember correctly

 

He's always been great on most social issues but for some reason still has a problem with gay people. And more recently people who have deconstructed. He just comes off sounding like a self righteous prick.

 

I feel like he’s always had a weird, combative attitude towards his faith, in a way? From his early days of clashing over his zombie love and arguing against Calvinism, to the conservative shit against “deconstruction” and queerness. Back in the day, I found it charming, but I’ve lost interest at this point.

Ironically, a lot of what I liked about early Showbread’s vibe in retrospect overlaps with my relationship to queerness, lol.

 

yeah for a dude who has issues with homophobia, he was one of most queer presenting frontmen of the era

 

I read Death to Deconstruction when it came out and the whole tone and premise of the book rubbed me wrong. His whole thesis is "the answer to deconstruction is orthodoxy" and "people only deconstruct to be cool".
I think Josh is a great artist, I don't have to agree with all his points, but the way he processed his own faith journey comes across as him saying that his answer needs to be the answer for everyone. He doesn't seem to show grace and understanding for anything that doesn't match his theology.
He's always been confrontational, but lately he seems to be going after his own fanbase and trying to force them into his own box.
As far as Showbread albums, No Sir and Showdead are probably my favorites. Anorexia and Nervosa, as art projects, are great. But they are a slog to get through. Half of the Come and Live output can't decide if it wants to be Showbread or praise and worship.

 

If anyone knows about the enneagram, he is certainly an 8, the challenger. Whatever you want me to be, I am not that. Whatever ever you think I’m going to be, I am the opposite.

 

And there's a place for that, it just doesn't mesh with where I am now, so I am not as interested in his work. (and OFWMFG bored me musically, never mind the lyrics)

 

Hadn’t come across his issues with queerness / gay people, but I have kept my distance in recent years.

 

Happy Semler Day for those who celebrate.

 

Always good to see Semler mentioned

 

Wait is there a new album?!