Alive and kicking hard

Amazing, my favorite album yet!

This most recent Jars of Clay Album is passionate and evocative. Jars of Clay never fails to reinvent themselves, while staying true to their roots. The Eleventh Hour is intellectually captivating and beautifully mixed, a very strong, solid album worth the purchase.

JoC, meet Classic Rock, Classic Rock meet JoC

Who is this band? Where are my stringed instruments and WHO BOUGHT THE DRUM KIT!?!? Jokes aside, this incredibly versatile band bent one more time for a market that had now opened up. For years, KLOVE would not play heavy alternative sounding Christian rock that only devil worshipers listened too. But with the growing popularity of AIR1, Jars now had a venue to break into. So sell those violins and pick up the Fender because here comes "Disappear"! It's like waking up from a bad piano/acoustic playing dream, to a screaming guitar. "The Eleventh Hour" and "Edge of the Water" are signs of just how comfortable JoC are with their musical talent. But then `it' comes. You get to track #5 and you hear the opening acoustic strum, followed by the all too popular JoC synth beat. A sense of urgency falls over you as you are pummeled by the train on the 11th Hour album cover. As "I Need You" gets into the chorus, shivers shake your soul. A worship song to end all worship songs, "I Need You" expresses the reality that most Christians face now. We've abandoned God and now we need him desperately. The layering guitar work and ambient vocals shroud this album in a layer of mystery. When the mist clears, your experience with the Eleventh Hour will find you asking a lot of questions that the world can't answer. Only He can.

Polished and Perfect

As another reviewer said, The Eleventh Hour, is Jars of Clay's first polished album. You can tell they really spent time getting this one "perfect" and it is! DISAPPEAR is a great starting song, with electrifying guitar sound. ELEVENTH HOUR is truly a masterpiece, with wonderful lyrics, melody, and very cool keyboard effects. WHATEVER SHE WANTS is their only non-God related song. A very good, darker and louder song that is about a dependent relationship. SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL really is beautiful in itself. The poignant lyrics mirrored the deepest desire of my heart.REVOLUTION talks about how "you don't need to fight or make yourself belong, to be a revolution" with fun lyrics and heavy rock. This album is a different sound than the previous one, like all of Jars of Clay's cds! They each have a different sound. With the Eleventh Hour they decided to go with an arena rock sound, and they succeeded.