Description
Out of the Dust is the sole full-length album by the American rock band Human, released on Organic Records in 1998, a Pamplin Music label, manufactured and distributed in the US by Pamplin Music Distribution. The album was produced by Billy Smiley of White Heart fame.
Human features Randy Kinnett on lead vocals; Dean Martin Vanderwoude on acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar, and vocals; Carl Sapp on acoustic guitar as well as rhythm and lead guitar; Vic Sapp on bass; and Erick Garcia on drums.
Human stir up the dust of moral and spiritual complacency with their debut disc for Organic Records. Randy Kinnett (vox), brothers Carl (rhythm/lead/acoustic guitars) and Vic Sapp (bass), Dean Martin Vanderwoade (rhythm/acoustic guitars) and Erick Garcia (drums) all got together between ’92 and ’97 to form Human – a name chosen literally at the toss of a coin. Having had «Lemonade» featured on last year’s ‘Mindy’s Revenge‘ compilation album, the band have since then collaborated with Billy Smiley (White Heart) to produce a hard hitting alternative sub-metal rock album of some note. Despite the deceptive drum machine intro to the album’s opening track, “Out Of The Dust” soon settles down to some fine tunes; well mixed and arranged complete with witty lyrics and catchy hooks. The band don’t hesitate to share down to earth truths about what it means to be human, simultaneously challenging the listener to enter into an ever closer walk with Christ. Perhaps I’m being a little too pedantic, but I cannot help feeling that the album is just a bit too well produced in places; resulting in the band’s rawer edge being somewhat suppressed. Despite this very slight niggle, “Out Of The Dust” is an outstanding debut album, from a band who look set to make plenty of waves in the future. [Alex Figgis, Cross Rhythms, August 1998]
[Mike Parker, CCM, September 1998]
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CD tracklist:
01. Read Your Mind
02. I.O.U.
03. Make Your Light To See
04. I Can’t Live
05. Hand Me Down
06. In The Name
07. Lemonade
08. Fat Man’s Delicacy
09. Disguise
10. Feel
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Organic Records. (Track 5 also contains a cover of U2’s “Bullet The Blue Sky“.)
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