“Risk”
Some time in the last two years, Ten Shekel Shirt morphed from an above average worship band to an artsy rock outfit more akin to Coldplay or Counting Crows. Band leader Lamont Hiebert still sings about his relationship with God, but he offers fewer of the vertical praises that filled the band’s debut, “Much.” Instead, “Risk” goes deeper into day-to-day life, faith and the connection between them.
Nowhere is this shift more evident than on “February,” where Hiebert expresses a need to honor his late mother and brother. If its haunting melody recalls a half-dozen British rock outfits, the emotion rides so near the surface, there’s no doubt the pain still lingers.
But the melancholy doesn’t dominate. “Risk” it might be, but it pays off with a leap forward in creativity.
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