Louder Than The Music

Audrey Assad releases her new album 'Fortunate Fall' independently this week after funding the project through a successful Kickstarter campaign in the Spring.

The campaigns goal of $40,000 was raised in 50 hours and the campaign eventually ended at nearly 200% of the goal.

The album is full of songs for liturgy, personal prayer, and corporate worship. Explaining the album title, Audrey said "Fortunate Fall is a version of the Latin phrase, 'felix culpa', which can be translated in several ways - 'o happy fault' is a common one, as is 'fortunate fall'.

'Felix culpa' is employed most often in the Exsultet, a prayer sung every year at Easter Vigil Mass. It is derived from the writing of Augustine on original sin - he says, 'For God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist.'"

"I chose this name because I have been meditating on the concept for some time, following several seasons of suffering. I am awed and frustrated by turns at the wisdom of God, at the mind of God - I cannot help but keep staring, but I can never get a good look at it. I have no doubt I shall spend the rest of my life wrestling with the idea that God would judge it better to bring good out of evil, than never to permit evil to exist. What it communicates to me, beyond several very personal and intimate truths about who I am and how He cares for me, is that God is in His very nature a Redeemer."

"I hope the lyrics and melodies and music of this record will communicate this idea. I have labored and I have wept and I have truly slaved under the burden of this thought, this music, and these lyrics."