Shane and Shane
Pages
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Like Cosmo Kramer’s coffee table book about coffee tables, the first studio album in three years from Shane and Shane is, in a sense, stylistically self-referencing.
Portions of their songs — by a duo who are veterans of the Christian college and coffeehouse circuit — were actually written in a coffee shop.
However, the duo return with a sound mostly transcendent of that typically associated with this particular genre. Some of that fact surely owes to a heady production, but there is a genuine depth in “Pages.”
It’s a depth that’s rare at most open-mike nights and that Shane and Shane’s previous efforts only hinted at.
Opening with a country twang that never entirely fades, the record is a folksy flood of affection for Christ, a poetic brochure of slow but poppy worship advertising the luxury of devoted Christian living.
Recommended for fans of David Crowder Band, Caedmon’s Call and Bebo Norman.
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