David Crowder Band return with revolutionary 'Church Music' project

THE FIFTH studio album by award-winning David Crowder Band, 'Church Music', will be released in September on sixstepsrecords (Survivor Records in the UK). Said Crowder, "I hope this album serves as a reminder of music within the Church, of its richness and its broadness, and the tension that exists in using elements of cultural language to express our collective experience and also still remain a transformative presence that is set apart."

The 17 songs on the album play continuously from beginning to end with one song blending into the next. Crowder continued, "We asked ourselves, if we, as a band, were to throw our arms around the popular music of our time, here in 2009, how would we do it. We started with the track. We programmed the album first, forcing ourselves to write from the track up, and then, after the song emerged, we dismantled it, replacing much of the programming with live instrumentation but leaving the fundamentals that the song emerged from intact." The first single from the project, "How He Loves", recently made number one on iTunes' Christian and Gospel Singles chart.