Description
Everything Sad is Coming Untrue is the fifth full-length studio album by the American singer and songwriter Jason Gray, released on Centricity Music in September 2009, distributed in the US by EMI Christian Music Group. The album was produced by Jason Ingram and Rusty Varencamp for IV Entertainment.
Jason Gray got his first big break with a stint touring as guitarist with Sara Groves, and enlisting Andrew Peterson, Lori Chaffer (Waterdeep) and Joel Hanson (PFR) for his solo debut, the last of whom shares writing credits on «I Am New», the penultimate track on the optimistic-sounding follow-up. The tracks most in keeping with the buoyant title are probably the opener «More Like Falling In Love» and the sunny «Help Me, Thank You» which comes mid-way through, but which curiously is left as a gap in the lyric sheet. With producer Jason Ingram keeping a tight rein on song content and structure, this is focused, high-quality CCM throughout, largely a folk/rock blend. «How I Ended Up Here» and «The Golden Boy & The Prodigal» and the devotional «Jesus, Use Me, I’m Yours» are all more in the former category, and wouldn’t sound out of place if performed instead by erstwhile associate Andrew Peterson. The title cut appears in two separate parts, the second being the finale, and much mellower in delivery than part one. Perhaps the most powerful song is «Fade With Our Voices», with its challenge for us to have integrity in worship: ‘Does our worship have hands? Does our worship have feet? Does it stand up in the face of injustice?’. It echoes the likes of Amos centuries ago, but later turns each question into exhortation ‘Let our worship have hands’ etc. – a message we’d all do well to heed. [Peter Dilley, Cross Rhythms, March 2010]
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CD tracklist:
01. More Like Falling In Love
02. Everything Sad Is Coming Untrue (Part 1)
03. For The First Time Again
04. Fade With Our Voices
05. Holding The Key
06. How I Ended Up Here
07. Help Me, Thank You
08. Better Way To Live
09. Hold Me Back
10. The Golden Boy & The Prodigal
11. Jesus, Use Me, I’m Yours
12. I Am New
13. Everything Sad Is Coming Untrue (Part 2)
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