Hugh's Worthless Blog

Well, although MP3's from Aaron Shust and Relient K's latest albums are still on rotation on the $30 NewEgg MP3 player in my car (similar to this as Cyberguys ), my latest favorite album right now is "Wake Up! Wake Up!" by Everyday Sunday . Songs from their last album "Anthems for the Imperfect" sounded pretty good, but I never bought the album. This one caught my interest and after hearing some of the songs on HearItFirst.com , I decided to buy the album and I have not been disappointed. They sound fresher and more energetic than on their earlier albums (due to new musicians in the band, a new producer and a new label) and this is definitely a good album to have on rotation in my car along with Relient K and Aaron Shust. It's great "discovering" more and more great, "new" artists out there in the Christian music scene.

I actually received my autographed copy of "Whispered & Shouted" last Monday (a day before the official release!) and I was happy to see it was also put in a DigiPak like "Anything Worth Saying". Since I typically only play the original CD a few times (I prefer to mix my own copies to burn on CD-R's) the DigiPak's should last as long as plastic jewel cases and are definitely less likely to break at the hinges. Aaron again wins another award for thickest CD liner note booklet around. He dedicates one page to the lyrics for each song and another page with personal notes and background about each song. You can also find his lyrics on his site or at my site too! One interesting change I noted in the new massive liner notes was whereas last time he put relevant Bible quotes in the upper right corner of the pages with lyrics, this time he actually embeds the bible verse references directly in the lyrics on the lines where the verses are relevant. Neat. I may...