Fireflight

The Healing of Harms
Flicker Records

It is doubtful that folks who like the musical styles that Fireflight says influenced its album’s sound will give this record a second spin. Yes, the 11 songs are passionately delivered and the few gravelly screams wellexecuted.
But tiny traces of emo, metal and progressive rock — when b l e n d e d buttery by smooth female vocals better suited for Top 40 pop — create a sound far removed from the scenes the group’s chiseled hipster features indicate it is longing for. But that is not a bad thing, as much of the music found in those scenes is terrible.

Fireflight isn’t.

In the end, Fireflight is easily the modern Christian answer to Evanescence and this, its national debut, is an album, for the most part, accessible to anyone under the age of 40.