What A Heart Is Beating For - Review

Yesterday, Chris Rice's latest album, What A Heart is Beating For, was released. I've been a big fan of Chris for quite some time, so I downloaded it (legally, through iTunes) first thing.

Chris Rice has been a CCM recording artist since 1996, has written famous songs such as Go Light You World, Welcome To our World, Deep enough to Dream, When Did you fall, and is considered by many to be one of the Greatest CCM artists of all time, With a talent equalled only by the Late Rich Muillins.

As always, you never know what you're going to hear from Chris, and, as always, you're pleasantly suprised. It's the same for this album.

With his older albums, the lyrics were a lot of the time, questions, wonderings, etc. It seems with this album the lyrics lean more toward giving advice, and somewhat more of a simple understanding of life, if that makes any sense.

The music is very well composed, with solid bass lines, great sounding guitars, non-overbearing drums, and the vocals nested pristinely within the music, not overpowered by the instruments, but not standing out on top of the instruments, either.

Noting the success of When Did you Fall (in love with me), from has last album, Amusing, Chris has done some more love songs in this album, including; Song much for my Sad Song, with great piano and vocals, Here Come Those Eyes, with a very catchy tune - I don't even know what you'd call this style, kind of retro and jazzy, and a few other love songs.

If you download the Album via iTunes , you get a digital booklet, and two bonus tracks. I would have to say my three favorite tracks from this album are: So Much For My sad song, You Don't Have to Yell, & Kids Again (Bonus Track). Below is a sample of those three songs.

This album gets a 4¹/₂ star rating from me.

+What A Heart Is Beating For - On iTunes+