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Tuesday, March 12, 2002 The Eleventh Hour In my humble opinion, Jars of Clay's first album, which was self-titled, was one of the best CDs ever recorded. The lyrics were heartfelt and honest, the music organic and catchy, and I could return to many of the songs over and over in the same way you can return a good book, learning something new each time you reread it. The album was released in 1995, but I still pull it out and listen (often, in fact--I recently learned how to play "He" and have covered "Worlds Apart" in the past). However, their subsequent releases were disappointing; Much Afraid felt less personal and If I Left the Zoo was just a little wierd. I haven't heard much from The Eleventh Hour yet, but Jars of Clay produced the first album themselves and decided to take up that role again for this one. Relevant Magazine has a nice article written by lead singer Dan Haseltine that makes the band's latest effort sound enticing. "And when you hear it," says guitarist Matt Odmark, "I hope you don’t hear the noisy vocabulary of religion. I hope you hear music that results from faith, not music that is about faith. I hope you hear our lives in each note, sound and lyric. I hope you hear the joy and the heartbreak of friends wrestling to sing in harmony, not perfectly, but believably. I hope the songs remind you how to believe. This is music that is born in the gut and travels through the soul and rings in the ears with echoes of eternity.” ^ Top | 3:25 AM | | | 
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