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'To Know That You're Alive'
[Release Date: June 24, 2008] (BEC Recordings)
Track Listing
1. The Feeling
2. Sleeping City
3. To Know That You're Alive
4. The Disease & The Cure
5. Complete
6. The Rescue
7. Promise You
8. Guiding Me Home
1. The Feeling
2. Sleeping City
3. To Know That You're Alive
4. The Disease & The Cure
5. Complete
6. The Rescue
7. Promise You
8. Guiding Me Home
| 3.5 |
| 2.8 |
| 2.0 |
| 1.0 |
| 9.3 |
| 93% A- |
| ><> Review Written By: Barry Collins (barry.collins@christianmusicreview.org) <>< ><> Date Written: June 23, 2008 <>< |
| [ Main Review ] |
| [ Writer's Closing Thoughts ] |
| This album is truly a blessing and I sincerely encourage every one to listen to it at least once and hopefully it will mean something to you and touches your life just as it has touched mine. Also, I encourage you to listen to previous Kutless albums for they are very rewarding to listen to. You can check out the other reviews right hear on www.christianmusicreview.org. Colossians 1:16 says that all things were created through Jesus and for Him. This tells me that we are made for Jesus and that everything is going to be alright for we are in His hands. |
Kutless brings you their sixth album To Know That You’re Alive. This album is truly
inspiring and powerful, with a rock style and feel. This album will not let you down, it is still
the same Kutless we have fallen in love with; with the same great message that one can
expect and hope for.
Track 1—“The Feeling” “We cannot run away”…we cannot run away from our feeling, our
calling, our purpose. Our light needs to spread throughout the world, for we are the light of
the world. We need to turn it up: our voices, our wisdom, and our obedience. Scream what
we know.
Track 2—“Sleeping City” is an introduction to track 3 “To Know That You’re Alive”.
Track 3—“To Know That You’re Alive” This song to me, refers to the crucifixion of Jesus.
“Right now you’re bruised and bleeding / I see the good in your eyes / I know your pain is
for a reason / Need the feeling just to know that you’re alive.”
The question is, are you looking for something real, something new, better, or even life-
changing? Well our Lord and Savior, Jesus is the answer. It just takes faith to believe in
something you cannot see.
Track 4—“The Disease & the Cure” Your disease is sin, bondage, temptation, and the
mind of the world; the cure is Jesus: he will provide you with freedom, peace, love, and
everlasting life.
Track 5—“Complete” This song is about your life-changing moment; it is surrender saying I
am totally yours. It shows a burning fire, fire for God upon your life wanting to run to the
lost and tell them how good our Lord and Savior truly is, for all you have to do is ask Him in
your life, He completes you.
Track 6—“The Rescue” Is your life on a path of destruction, looking to turn it all around to
life of peace. Well you can say goodbye to all your pain and bondage, for Jesus is waiting
for you with loving arms and He cares about you and everyone else…always.
Track 7—“Promise You” “Waiting on the sun to arise and make the darkness go away”
This is a metaphor for the darkness and turmoil in ones life and when the light shows,
darkness must flee.
1 John 1:5 says, “This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you, that
God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” NKJV.
Track 8—“Guiding Me Home” We are nothing without Jesus; we cannot do it without Him,
for we are lost without Him. This song says, “…it is grace that defines who I am, You say
that you love me always and forever, You say that you love me I know I will never, deserve
all the love that you show, it’s the light that is guiding me home.”
Track 9—“Overcoming Me” This song is a good song, it talks about how you do not want
Jesus to leave your side and you cannot stop him from overcoming you.
Track 10—“I Do Not Belong” You do not belong in this world, doing worldly things. You
belong in the arms of God, moving to as close as possible to perfection. For one day you
will go home, where you belong.
Track 11—“Loud” Nothing should ever silence you from telling others about God, you
should be free and not ashamed for who you truly are.
Track 12—“Dying to Become” You are wanting to become like your heavenly father, Jesus
Christ. In Ephesians 5:1 says we are to be imitators of God.
Track 13—“You” This song talks about the goodness, splendor, and glory of God and how
he is always on your mind, the one that you dream of. For he is the love you can always
count on.
inspiring and powerful, with a rock style and feel. This album will not let you down, it is still
the same Kutless we have fallen in love with; with the same great message that one can
expect and hope for.
Track 1—“The Feeling” “We cannot run away”…we cannot run away from our feeling, our
calling, our purpose. Our light needs to spread throughout the world, for we are the light of
the world. We need to turn it up: our voices, our wisdom, and our obedience. Scream what
we know.
Track 2—“Sleeping City” is an introduction to track 3 “To Know That You’re Alive”.
Track 3—“To Know That You’re Alive” This song to me, refers to the crucifixion of Jesus.
“Right now you’re bruised and bleeding / I see the good in your eyes / I know your pain is
for a reason / Need the feeling just to know that you’re alive.”
The question is, are you looking for something real, something new, better, or even life-
changing? Well our Lord and Savior, Jesus is the answer. It just takes faith to believe in
something you cannot see.
Track 4—“The Disease & the Cure” Your disease is sin, bondage, temptation, and the
mind of the world; the cure is Jesus: he will provide you with freedom, peace, love, and
everlasting life.
Track 5—“Complete” This song is about your life-changing moment; it is surrender saying I
am totally yours. It shows a burning fire, fire for God upon your life wanting to run to the
lost and tell them how good our Lord and Savior truly is, for all you have to do is ask Him in
your life, He completes you.
Track 6—“The Rescue” Is your life on a path of destruction, looking to turn it all around to
life of peace. Well you can say goodbye to all your pain and bondage, for Jesus is waiting
for you with loving arms and He cares about you and everyone else…always.
Track 7—“Promise You” “Waiting on the sun to arise and make the darkness go away”
This is a metaphor for the darkness and turmoil in ones life and when the light shows,
darkness must flee.
1 John 1:5 says, “This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you, that
God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” NKJV.
Track 8—“Guiding Me Home” We are nothing without Jesus; we cannot do it without Him,
for we are lost without Him. This song says, “…it is grace that defines who I am, You say
that you love me always and forever, You say that you love me I know I will never, deserve
all the love that you show, it’s the light that is guiding me home.”
Track 9—“Overcoming Me” This song is a good song, it talks about how you do not want
Jesus to leave your side and you cannot stop him from overcoming you.
Track 10—“I Do Not Belong” You do not belong in this world, doing worldly things. You
belong in the arms of God, moving to as close as possible to perfection. For one day you
will go home, where you belong.
Track 11—“Loud” Nothing should ever silence you from telling others about God, you
should be free and not ashamed for who you truly are.
Track 12—“Dying to Become” You are wanting to become like your heavenly father, Jesus
Christ. In Ephesians 5:1 says we are to be imitators of God.
Track 13—“You” This song talks about the goodness, splendor, and glory of God and how
he is always on your mind, the one that you dream of. For he is the love you can always
count on.
9. Overcoming Me
10. I Do Not Belong
11. Loud
12. Dying To Become
13. You
| [Additional Review by: Jay Heilman] I have to say that I have been a Kutless fan since the beginning. Well, since I started listening to them back in 2004! One thing I can say about the band, is that I have never had to question their message. Jon Micah is always very forth about his intentions in song-writing. I have often times seen in reviews by other media that the band is too ‘cookie-cutter’ with both it’s lyrics and it’s music. One similarity I think a lot of people focus on with Kutless is their sound, in that they sound like a cloned version of the now broken-up mainstream group, Creed. Number one, I was a huge Creed fan before coming to know Christ, and two, if one actually sat down and listened to an entire Creed record along side a Kutless album, would realize that one song struck similar between the two, and that was the song “Tonight” from their debut record. Other then that, not too much comparison can be made between the two. There is obviously influence there, but not to a point that it needs to be mentioned every time we hear a new Kutless record. Well, I have rambled on about the early Kutless, but I can say that I noticed a lot of differences between Kutless’ last studio record, Hearts of the Innocent and their latest, To Know That You’re Alive. Composing and music structure is something I noticed different right off the bat. There’s nothing wrong with change, in fact I often like to see change. Lyrically, this album is not as forth with it’s message then the past records, but I still think Kutless is great in that they have never tried to hide the fact that they are a Christian band. Musically, I think the album is a bit different then the past efforts. I think this has something to do with the fact that the guitar duo that once was James Mead and Ryan Shrout is no longer, and the musical relationship between Mead and new guitarist, Nick DePartee has begun with the completion of this record. I think the new approach to the music was cool. This album definitely had it’s heavy moments, starting off with the first track, “The Feeling”. “To Know That You’re Alive” was a great track musically as well, starting off with an orchestrated start and progressing into an assault of guitars. Very cool. “Complete” was probably one of my favorite songs off the album. It sounded very ‘MercyMe-ish’, which was cool. True that, Jesus is the One who completes us. Amen? Either way, I loved the new record and I figured if I took on the main review for this one, I would obviously have a biased opinion based on the previous four Kutless reviews that I had written. So, what are you waiting for? Go and pick up To Know That You’re Alive today! |