The Glorious Unseen To Release 'The Hope That Lies In You'
The Glorious Unseen will release their highly anticipated second album, 'The Hope That Lies In You' next Tuesday, August 25th, on BEC Recordings. The band, from Nashville, Tennessee, released their debut album 'Tonight the Stars Speak' in 2007 and have released two digital EP's since then.
Explaining how he started the band, lead vocalist Ben Crist said, "In the beginning, it was just really stripped down - acoustic guitar and such. it was just me singing worship songs and strumming the acoustic in someone's living room with like 15 people or so. It was incredibly inspiring to me though. It wasn't intended to be a band or a touring act or anything at first. I didn't really expect to be playing outside my own church. But, I began writing my own worship songs, and recorded a worship CD with 5 of my own songs on it. That's when my songs started to gain an audience with people outside of our church."
On the subject of the band's style of music and intentions for the album, Ben continues: "I know that what we do has kinda fit into the praise and worship genre up to this point - simply because of the lyrics and how things are sung. I know in the music industry - we always like to label types of music and such. And ours has fit in best to the 'praise and worship' category. I would prefer that our music not be labeled any certain way, because I think the "praise and worship" genre a lot of times limits who would actually listen to the music. Despite the labels, our intention with every song we do and every event that we play, is to lead people straight into the presence of God. We are not interested in 'performing' - so that we can get famous. We are not interested in just doing music to make money. We are interested in connecting with God. So, whether we label this as 'praise and worship' or not, our main focus is to connect with God through our music and art."
