Sunsets & Sushi

Description

Sunsets & Sushi, sub-titled Experiments in Spectral Deconstruction, is a eight-track CD-EP by the American contemporary worship combo David Crowder Band, released on sixstepsrecords/Sparrow Records in 2005, manufactured by EMI CMG Label Group, distributed in the US by EMI CMG Distribution. It contains remixes of eight songs from the band’s 2003 release Illuminate. Remixed by Jay Joyce (track 1), Rob Hawkins (tracks 2 and 6), David Larring/Matt Erickson (track 3), Christopher Stevens (track 4), Tony Miracle (tracks 5 and 8), and Robert Marvin/Josiah Bell (track 7).

David Crowder in the dance/electronic classification? Yep. Reportedly the best selling CD at Edinburgh’s Frenzy event, thanks to the sextet’s stunning performance there, this is an excellent mini-album. One does wonder, however, what new fans of the David Crowder Band’s guitar-driven modern rock will make of this eight-song remix project. For ‘Sunsets & Sushi’ is nearer to New Order than Delirious? and lives up to its subtitle ‘Experiments In Spectral Deconstruction’. Notwithstanding that, these electronica style re-assemblages of songs from 2003’s ‘Illuminate‘ classic are great, in part because «No One Like You», «Open Skies» and «O Praise Him,» are such great worship songs. Utilising M-Audio/Propellerhead Reason software, some of the sampling and sequencing is inspired though one reviewer’s suggestion that some moments sound like “the Human League on Paxil” show that American cousins still aren’t able to figure out the warp and woof of today’s electronica. Overall, a fascinating diversion while we await the band’s ‘A Collision‘ album. [Paul Gallagher, Cross Rhythms, December 2004]

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CD-EP tracklist:

01. No One Like You (Thanksgiving Mix)
02. O Praise Him (All This For A King) (Oceanic Mix)
03. Open Skies (Dirty Beats Mix)
04. Revolutionary Love (Neo-Mechanical Mix)
05. How Great (Direct from Satellite City)
06. Intoxicating (Pneumatic Mix)
07. Deliver Me (Antidromic Mix)
08. Stars (From the Mount Wilson Observatory)