This week’s premieres include a new artist on pop-rock course and a thought provoking singer-songwriter.

Here With Me, the debut project from new Slanted Records artist Nate Huss, is bursting at the seams with upbeat pop/rock hooks guaranteed to stick in your head for days.

Adopted into a multi-racial family of eight kids, Nate’s unique story unfolds through his music and touches on issues of insecurity, finding one’s identity in Christ and the love of an eternal Father. The album ends with a grateful and heartfelt song to his birth mother, the bonus track titled Your Own.

The Ringing Bell is an album of action. Specifically the action called peace. With his latest album, Derek Webb challenges us to an actionable peace that is active and aggressive. Often used as a noun but rarely as a verb, peace is commonly misused, falsely defined and often flies under the flag of convenience. The Ringing Bell sounds the clarion call to demonstrate a love that is not just convenient, but is chasing after the best for all our fellow men.

Moving from the more stark pallet on his latest, Derek paints with all the musical brushes available to him on his latest work. This upbeat, electric guitar based recording, provides the perfect accompaniment to the challenge of demonstrating an active peace just as Christ did.

This former member of Caedmon’s Call is making his mark yet again.

The Ringing Bell will be specially priced at $17.99 or less whiie Here With Me will be introductory priced at $12.99 or less for a limited time at participating Canadian Christian retailers. Head over to HearItFirst.ca to hear these upcoming releases.