Divine Invitation

Something Like Silas - Divine Invitation

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Artist: Something Like Silas
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2004-06-29
Music Label: Sparrow
Soundtracks:
  1. Creation's Call
  2. Words That You Say
  3. Infinite
  4. Divine Invitation
  5. Spirit Waltz
  6. When I Search
  7. Rains Pour Down
  8. In the Burning
  9. Weight of the World
  10. Please
  11. Better Is One Day
  12. I Fall

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Free Music Review: A Superb Alt/Worship Debut
Hit: 5 Stars

Rising from one of the largest college services in the nation, at The Flood in San Diego, comes Something Like Silas - a band that does worship music in a different way. The Flood and Something Like Silas are symbiotic - they were both born at the same time and are inexorably linked; all five members of Silas are a deeply involved in The Flood and play there at least two thirds of the weekends of the year. Services at The Flood are what is known as "emerging worship" - a post-modern style that emphasizes interaction and artistic expression in the midst of the worship and teaching. "We want to change the way people look at worship bands," says Eric Owyoung, the band's lead singer.

DIVINE INVITATION, then, is the perfect vehicle for Owyoung's stated mission. Though worshipful through and through, the record does not typify what we now understand to be modern worship, with the corporate, sing-a-long style choruses and easy to remember lyrics. DIVINE INVITATION is, in some ways, the anti-modern-worship worship album. It is moody, brooding, environmental, alternative, and impassioned. Musical influences, which flavor rather than dominate the production, range from The Violet Burning to Sixpence None the Richer to Radiohead and U2.

"Creation's Call" opens the album. A song based on Luke 19 - creation singing the praises of God - it is backed by searing, echoing guitars and moody production that create an ambience that sets the perfect backdrop for the expansive lyric. "Words That You Say" would perfectly open any worship service: "Speak in this close communion / though this hour seems timeless still / I wait for Your words that bid me come."

The title track starts out being carried by soft, prayerful keyboards. The production builds, slowly adding more layers, more vocals, a guitar, and then layers of guitars and percussion, until the chorus is carried by a haunting, crying voice that perfectly expresses the longing of the chorus for the embrace of God.

"When I Search," an all-out rocker, is another moment where Silas turns the stereotypes of contemporary Christian music on their ear, talking not about what we know as Christians but rather the process, and the discovery that "when I search for you every day / I found how whole you make me." The band's cover of "Better Is One Day" is excellent and truly gives this now too-often recorded song new life, though in the midst of so much originality from the band this one seems a bit out of place.

Color me impressed. This is, hands down, one of the best albums of the past year. The more I listen to it the more impressed I become. Something Like Silas breaks the mold of what worship music can and should sound like; beyond that, DIVINE INVITATION is simply a fantastic alt-rock record. San Diego already lays claim to two great national bands - P.O.D. and Switchfoot. The count is now up to three.

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