Aaron Gillespie - Echo Your Song
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Echo Your Song
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28 Feb 2012 (US), 27 Feb 2012 (UK)
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It has been nearly a year since I reviewed the album Anthem Song by Aaron Gillespie, at the time a new singer/songwriter for me, but now he is back with a six track live EP named 'Echo Your Song'. Aaron Gillespie has been around in the music industry for years, previously as the lead singer and founder of The Almost and also as the drummer and co-founder of the popular metal-core band Underoath. This EP features three Hillsong covers as well as songs from Anthem Song. This project was recorded last April at Nine O Five (C4Church in Ajax, Canada).
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Read More It has been nearly a year since I reviewed the album Anthem Song by Aaron Gillespie, at the time a new singer/songwriter for me, but now he is back with a six track live EP named 'Echo Your Song'. Aaron Gillespie has been around in the music industry for years, previously as the lead singer and founder of The Almost and also as the drummer and co-founder of the popular metal-core band Underoath. This EP features three Hillsong covers as well as songs from Anthem Song. This project was recorded last April at Nine O Five (C4Church in Ajax, Canada).
Beautiful Exchange opens with an atmospheric piano and Aaron encouraging people to sing along and worship God with the words "Holy are you God, Holy is your name, everything I've got, my heart will sing". Then out of the blue the song bursts into life, still repeating the original lines, but now with all the guitars screaming out their notes. There is a lot of encouraging words spoken about the love of God by Aaron and he spends a bit of time encouraging people to speak out their own words of praise to God. 'We Were Made For You' with it's steady drum beat adds a sense of steady rock, what jumped out at me in this song is the vocals of Aaron who isn't your traditional worship leading sounding vocalist. Actually he has something a bit different in his voice which adds something extra to the songs.
Anthem Song does what it says on the tin, pounding beating drums that will get even the coolest of people nodding in agreement and shouting out in declaration "You Are Holy, You Are Holy". Jesus Paid It All has that hymn like feel and Came To Rescue Me has those great lines and mid section of "And my life, be lifted high... be lifted". A great song this one.
I have to admit I found this album to be a bit of a strange one, overall it's very solid musically and Aaron's vocal sounds even better live than on his album. But there is a large part of me that just wishes this was a Aaron Gillespie live album of his own songs without the Hillsong covers. There are a lot of times on the album where Aaron encourage the people who are at the event to worship, to sing out, which is fine while you are at the event or listening for the first time. But when you have listened to the album a few times those encouraging, spoken words can be a little bit of a distraction from the actual music.
For all that, this doesn't make it a bad album, and there are moments on this album that are brilliant and nothing can take away from the fact that Aaron just wants to sing out God's praise with songs that a bunch of worshippers want to sing along to. And that makes any album amazing.
Review by Jono Davies
LTTM Rating 4 Out of 5 Stars
Standout Tracks
Anthem Song
Came To Rescue Me Articles
Aaron Gillespie has released a new live EP this week titled 'Echo Your Song' featuring six songs recorded last April at the C4 Church in Ontario, Canada. The EP includes tracks taken from his debut solo worship project 'Anthem…
