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Summary: Not my favorite Sanctus Real album...
Comment: I absolutely love Sanctus Real, but when I got their new cd, "We Need Each Other", I was extremely dissapointed. The songs were much lighter and softer, and the lyrics seemed forced and not as deep as their previous albums. I've always loved the bold, clean, catchy guitar riffs of Sanctus Real - you know, the kind that make you want to bang your head and play your air guitar; however, I found none of this in their latest album. It's not bad music, just not the Sanctus Real I've come to know and love. I guess I'll just stick with their older albums and hope Sanctus Real returns to their roots with the next album.
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Summary: Amazing album, best of 2008!
Comment: I have really enjoyed this band since "Fight The Tide" and "Everything About You" hooked me. I read somewhere that Sanctus Real is filling the void left by Audio Adrenaline retiring and that is a great description of a great Christian band. I find their sound to be in line with my favorite Christian alternative rock bands, Jars of Clay and Downhere. This is a key album in their career, following up the great "Face of Love", which was among the best of 2006. "We Need Each Other" grabs you right away with the stand-out songs "Turn On The Lights", the title track, "Black Coal" and "Sing" which rank among the best ever Sanctus Real. There are no filler songs and my favorite song is "Legacy". In my opinion, so far this is the best album of 2008!
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Summary: You Need This Album
Comment: With one huge album release after another, band Sanctus Real, returns after two years from chart topping The Face of Love, on the brink of climbing the hits once again. We Need Each Other is the band's next creation. Here they have sparked a fuse on a collection of songs that are ready to explode.
Taking off with the hard hitting track "Hit the Lights" Sanctus Real keeps their status quo in the rock department, as they are known for, starting this album off with a great debut. As in their previous albums, the title track or radio singles seem to be Sanctus Real's strongest cuts. On this album the title track, "We Need Each Other", is no exception. Obvious of the title, the song describes our great need of one another in life and love, an underlining theme throughout the record. "Black Coal" is another guitar driven tune, which shows off the band's newest member, guitarist Pete Provost and his talent as a musician. The song's lyrics portray finding our shining diamonds within ourselves in God's eyes.
Switching gears into the spiritually dramatic "Whatever You're Doing" and the very modern ballad "Lay Down My Guns", a genre Sanctus Real has come to perfect. Catchy rock anthems "Sing" and "Leap of Faith" bulk up these guys' will to dominate the pop rock genre, with lyrics that guide us into our own souls that are searching deep for meaning and belonging. The song "Eternal" speaks of heartfelt fusing of love between us and our Savior, much relevant of vows taken in marriage. The folk flavor "Half Our Lives" brings out frontman Matt Hammitt's strongest work to date, and he's joined by female vocalist Katie Herzig. The song tells the youthful tale of innocence and growing older. The final track, "Legacy", boasts how to live our one life to the fullest leaving behind a legacy worth something, and it rounds out this quality album.
The band's signature sound is very well intact and represented in such a way that is central to them as a group. Drawing from real feelings and delivering on honest themes, Sanctus Real has delivered a top notch fourth album.
Sanctus Real has become a force to be reckoned over the many years they've been within the Christian music scene. Snatching up awards and hit singles, they are poised to be a long lasting brotherhood of talented musicians.
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Summary: Not as good as Their first 3 CDs
Comment: I don't find this CD as original or as catchy that their first CDs. Sanctus is probably my favorite band too. Listen for yourself before buying. It's kind of blah. I listed to it for the first week after it released, trying to like it, but there are only 2 or 3 songs that I even remotely liked. The first 2 songs on the album.
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Summary: Just blew me away.
Comment: I never listened to Sanctus Real before Creation Fest 2006, and instantly I was hooked. I think I played "I'm Not Alright" about a thousand times that summer, then I finally got the cd. Nine months later, I see them in concert, and they actually give us a preview of their new album, by playing "We Need Each Other". Again, I found myself instantly hooked, and I preordered the cd. Once it arrived at my doorstep, I was up to my neck in homework, work, and yearbook deadlines, but at the end, an hour before I went to bed, I grabbed my MP3 player, and listned to the album, full way through, with no interruptions.
Holy crap, this was an amazing album. I found it so easy to relate to, it all made sense. There were times that I found myself forgetting to breathe because I was so entranced by the string of lyrics, and seemingly never-ending awesomeness.
I can't wait to, once again, see them in concert!
So, give it a chance. Go ahead, listen to it, buy it, and definitely feel free to fall in love with it. : )
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