Artist: David Crowder Band
Album: Give Us Rest or (A Requiem Mass in C [The Happiest of All Keys])
Release Date: January 10th,2012
Style: Praise & Worship / Pop / Contemporary
Label: SixSteps Records / Sparrow Records
Location: Waco, TX

 About:

David Crowder*Band delivers their final album Give Us Rest or (a requiem mass in c [the happiest of all keys]), an epic, triumphant collection of songs that poetically illustrates that in death something new is reborn. The album showcases the band’s unique music style and touches on worship, pop, rock, bluegrass and electronic genres. Features the first single “Let Me Feel You Shine”. The band is currently headlining their final tour – the “7” tour – with 25 shows already sold out. The band will play their final show at the Passion 2012 Conference in January 2012.

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About David Crowder*Band:
Named among the “most thoughtful, progressive and exciting acts in contemporary Christian music” by The New York Times, the popular yet unconventional David Crowder*Band released their last GRAMMY ® nominated album Church Music in 2009 which debuted at No. 1 on the Christian retail chart scanning over 35,000 units. This gave David Crowder*Band their largest street week to date ranking in at No. 11 on the Billboard Top 200. David Crowder*Band’s latest music video for “SMS (Shine)” nabbed coverage on NBC’s The Today Show, Fox & Friends, USA Today, Billboard and Paste Magazine online as well as a GMA Dove Award win for “Short Form Video of the Year.” The video was also recognized at the LA Film Festival in 2011. Along with the group’s 9 GMA Dove Awards and 22 nominations, the band was the first Christian artist to be named MSN.com’s Artist of the Year in 2006. The band is also part of the Passion Movement, participating in university student gatherings in the US and around the world. The group’s leader David Crowder is further an acclaimed author, having penned two books, including his acclaimed, highly personal, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, But Nobody Wants to Die: Or (The Eschatology of Bluegrass).

Track Listing Disc #1:
01. Requiem Aeternam Dona Eis, Domine
02. Oh Great God, Give Us Rest
03. Lux Aeternam Shine
04. Come Find Me
05. God Have Mercy (Kyrie Eleison
06. Why Me?
07. Fall On Your Knees
08. A Burial
09. Let Me Feel You Shine
10. Reprise #1
11. Blessedness Of Everlasting Light
12. The Sound Of Light
13. Interlude
14. Sequence 1
15. Sequence 2
16. Sequence 3
17. Sequence 4
18. Sequence 5
19. Sequence 6
20. Sequence 7

Their latest music video titled “SMS [Shine]“:

Track Listing Disc #2:
01. Reprise #2
02. Oh My God
03. I Am A Seed
04. After All (Holy)
05. The Great Amen
06. There Is A Sound
07. Oh, Great Love Of God
08. Our Communion
09. Sometimes
10. A Return
11. Oh, My God I’m Coming Home
12. Leaning On The Everlasting Arms / ‘Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus
13. Jesus, Lead Me To Your Healing Waters
14. Because He Lives

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