After the David Crowder*Band was voted MSN’s Artist of the Year 2006, MSN noted, “They’ve single-handedly redefined what contemporary Christian music should sound like” David Crowder*Band lives up to that billing and follows up 2005’s critically acclaimed and commercially successful A Collision with what promises to be one of 2007’s best offerings, Remedy. The band’s fourth full-length studio album releases September 25th.

The album’s first single and the band’s fastest charting single to date, Everything Glorious moved up to No. 12 this week on R&R’s Christian AC Monitored chart and cracked the Top 10 on its Christian AC Indicator chart, only seven weeks since its add date. The song was first performed live earlier this year at Passion ‘07 in Atlanta and has been a set list favourite throughout the band’s touring schedule this spring and summer. Other highlights on the album include a special guest appearance by the “Motor City Madman” Ted Nugent on We Won’t Be Quiet, the energetic and driving Neverending, and the synth-laden dance track Can You Feel It?

“The David Crowder Band continues to recast the modern worship conversation with language and musical texture that affirm our shared values while energizing our expressions with uniqueness and creativity,” says Louie Giglio, sixstepsrecords founder and popular speaker/author. “Remedy is a beautiful and redemptive leap forward in what has already become a storied journey for this band. Crowder’s latest offering is laden with the potential to engage the listener with worship that transforms the world.”

Always rearranging the norm, David Crowder*Band gave fans an inside look at the recording process for the new album in the spring, offering an eight-webcam view of The Barn, a recording facility built by the David Crowder*Band in the legendary barn of Dr Pepper fame. Fans were given unprecedented access to the recording process with cameras left running 24 hours a day. In addition to watching the recording in real time, fans were given early hints of what is coming through video blogs posted by band leader David Crowder.

David Crowder states, “We perceive music as a means of empathizing with one another and enunciating something common among us in our experiences of life and faith. Our band’s latest musical offering is for us the next available step in this journey; musically, lyrically, and thematically it is the sound of one foot coming down firmly in the present while the other simultaneously rises, exiting the space previously occupied, throwing our weight in a forward direction of momentum and consequence toward whatever lies ahead.”

Remedy picks up right where A Collision, the universally acclaimed 21 track, 73 minute epic that made everyone’s Top Ten list, left off. The last line A Collision offered an apology of sorts and a bit of foreshadowing:

“And I’m trying to make you sing from inside where you believe. Like it’s something that you need, like it means everything. And I’m trying to make you feel that this is for real, that life is happening. That it means everything. I’m just trying to make you sing.”

Remedy is a continuation of this effort, offering ten tracks that are arguably the most accessible and pop centric of the band’s career while at the same time diving deep into the theology of worship and what it means to be a part of the remedy that people around the world seek on a day to day basis. Whether it is a cure for AIDS, bringing an end to extreme poverty or the seemingly endless violence and aggression around the world, the need for change is evident. On this album, David Crowder Band addresses the obvious need for an ultimate remedy, yet knows that words and songs can do little to create change. They are mindful however that in recent history, songs and popular music acted as a catalyst for such change and gave voice to movement. With Remedy, the hope is to inspire action.

Plans are in the works to tie the fall tour to the idea of providing a remedy, finding a way to connect fans in each city to the needs in their own community and around the world. The Remedy Club Tour kicks off October 3rd, one week after the record hits shelves. The Remedy Club Tour takes the band along with openers Phil Wickham and The Myriad.

Stay tuned to YMZ as we will be bringing you more on Remedy next week.

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