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1. Everything Is Different
2. The Lord's Prayer
3. Worthy Of Affection
4. Great Reward
5. I'm Alive
6. My Portion
7. You Say I'm Rich
8. For The Good
2. The Lord's Prayer
3. Worthy Of Affection
4. Great Reward
5. I'm Alive
6. My Portion
7. You Say I'm Rich
8. For The Good
Everything Is Different
[Release Date: November 3, 2009] (Inpop Records)
Track Listing:
Track Listing:
9. Rain Down
10. This Is Who I Am
11. Turn Down The Music
12. My Hope Is Built
13. Everything Is Different (Radio Edit)
14. I'm Alive (Radio Edit)
15. Rain Down (Radio Edit)
10. This Is Who I Am
11. Turn Down The Music
12. My Hope Is Built
13. Everything Is Different (Radio Edit)
14. I'm Alive (Radio Edit)
15. Rain Down (Radio Edit)
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| 90% A- |
With career sales exceeding 450,000 units, the acoustic guitar-wielding, Texas-based duo
Shane & Shane returns with its eighth album, Everything Is Different. The album
embraces a more corporate worship style, inspired by Shane Barnard and Shane Everett's
role as worship leaders at their home church in Dallas. Influenced by the pair’s ongoing
involvement in teaching and training students in the area of worship ministry, Everything
Is Different offers moments that range from vertical praise to quiet reflection.
Among the most devotionally focused singer/songwriters of this generation, for Shane
Barnard and Shane Everett, it all comes back to the creative source. “We always have a
tendency to bring the scriptures into our songs,” Barnard explains. “It happens naturally
for us. It’s not like we have a game plan, but we’ve always spent a lot of time in the
Word of God. The Word of God is just so good - if you don’t mess with it - it’s hard to
mess it up. I think this album, probably more than any other album we’ve done, is the
Word of God set to music.”
My favorite overall song by Shane & Shane is now the title track “Everything is
Different”, which is a song about all of these things that are completely changed and
how different they are in Christ. Shane & Shane drew heavily on scriptures from Isaiah
to make its point in this upbeat, corporate worship song, comparing the wages of the
world with the free gifts of God - from ashes to beauty, from heaviness to praise, from
no way to a clear path, from the impossible to all things are possible.
Primary songsmith, Shane Barnard drew on Hebrews 1 and Psalm 40 for inspiration in
the gorgeous corporate worship hymn, “Worthy of Affection.” The album’s sweet yet
pulsating musical version of “The Lord’s Prayer” is taken word for word from the
Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Shane Everett lends his rare songwriting talent on “Rain
Down,” a song that reflects Psalm 27. The album’s first radio single, a creative re-
imaging of the beloved hymn, “My Hope Is Built,” is based on Jesus’ parable of the wise
man who built his house on solid rock, found in Matthew, chapter seven.
Closing Thoughts:
Musically this album is very diverse and the songs are acoustic oriented with very biblical
lyrics. Harmonizing together on every song, Shane & Shane’s personal and vulnerable
vocals have never sounded better. Each successive album has improved on the last for
Shane & Shane from Clean to Pages to Everything Is Different, which is now their best
overall album in my opinion. For me, the standout songs are “Everything Is Different”,
“Worthy of Affection”, “I’m Alive”, “Rain Down” and “My Hope Is Built”. If you’ve
liked past hit songs “Be Near”, “Yearn” and “We Love You Jesus” by Shane & Shane,
then you need to pick up Everything Is Different.
Shane & Shane returns with its eighth album, Everything Is Different. The album
embraces a more corporate worship style, inspired by Shane Barnard and Shane Everett's
role as worship leaders at their home church in Dallas. Influenced by the pair’s ongoing
involvement in teaching and training students in the area of worship ministry, Everything
Is Different offers moments that range from vertical praise to quiet reflection.
Among the most devotionally focused singer/songwriters of this generation, for Shane
Barnard and Shane Everett, it all comes back to the creative source. “We always have a
tendency to bring the scriptures into our songs,” Barnard explains. “It happens naturally
for us. It’s not like we have a game plan, but we’ve always spent a lot of time in the
Word of God. The Word of God is just so good - if you don’t mess with it - it’s hard to
mess it up. I think this album, probably more than any other album we’ve done, is the
Word of God set to music.”
My favorite overall song by Shane & Shane is now the title track “Everything is
Different”, which is a song about all of these things that are completely changed and
how different they are in Christ. Shane & Shane drew heavily on scriptures from Isaiah
to make its point in this upbeat, corporate worship song, comparing the wages of the
world with the free gifts of God - from ashes to beauty, from heaviness to praise, from
no way to a clear path, from the impossible to all things are possible.
Primary songsmith, Shane Barnard drew on Hebrews 1 and Psalm 40 for inspiration in
the gorgeous corporate worship hymn, “Worthy of Affection.” The album’s sweet yet
pulsating musical version of “The Lord’s Prayer” is taken word for word from the
Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Shane Everett lends his rare songwriting talent on “Rain
Down,” a song that reflects Psalm 27. The album’s first radio single, a creative re-
imaging of the beloved hymn, “My Hope Is Built,” is based on Jesus’ parable of the wise
man who built his house on solid rock, found in Matthew, chapter seven.
Closing Thoughts:
Musically this album is very diverse and the songs are acoustic oriented with very biblical
lyrics. Harmonizing together on every song, Shane & Shane’s personal and vulnerable
vocals have never sounded better. Each successive album has improved on the last for
Shane & Shane from Clean to Pages to Everything Is Different, which is now their best
overall album in my opinion. For me, the standout songs are “Everything Is Different”,
“Worthy of Affection”, “I’m Alive”, “Rain Down” and “My Hope Is Built”. If you’ve
liked past hit songs “Be Near”, “Yearn” and “We Love You Jesus” by Shane & Shane,
then you need to pick up Everything Is Different.
Review Written By: Kevin Davis [kevin.davis@christianmusicreview.org] Date Written: October 22, 2009
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