By the end of the year, third album Escape had appeared, with a pair of singles ("Just Fall," "Run Away") performing well on the charts. It was led by the single "Hide Your Love Away," their most popular song yet on the Christian charts. One year later, The Acoustic Sessions EP followed.Īnthem Lights' second album, You Have My Heart, appeared in early 2014. The quartet later signed on with Reunion Records, and with the new name in place and the backing of a label, Anthem Lights released a pair of eponymous albums, an EP and their full-length debut, in 2011. Working under the name Yellow Cavalier, the four singers released their self-titled debut EP in 2009 before they changed the group's name to Anthem Lights the following year.
After working on songs for Graham's debut, the pair decided to expand the project into a four-piece pop group, recruiting vocalists Kyle Kupecky and Caleb Grimm into the band. Finally, the piano and strings slowly rise to surround and embrace a repeated chant of “That’s how the light gets in,” like sun breaking through the clouds-a hope of human lovingkindness shining through the broken cracks to illuminate a way forward.Formed while founding members Chad Graham and Alan Powell were both living in Los Angeles, California, Christian pop band Anthem Lights began as a solo project for Graham in 2007. In the final chorus each member of the choir chants their own personal prayer under a quiet and brave last call to forget our perfect offering. For the last verse, a single still, small voice rises from the darkness. Things finally explode with dissonant, banging piano before re-forming and churning toward the second chorus’s cry of strength and desperation, urging us to ring the bells that still can ring. You will hear some of those rich sonorities arise through the first part of the song, but either over-the-top saccharine or slightly out of place somehow.
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I started thinking about the weird juxtaposition of that era’s lush, almost schmaltzy popular and movie music against the horrors that were taking place all over the world. As I began to write those parts in early August 2017, images of red flags from Charlottesville brought to mind the 1930s and '40s. Giving his melodies to a choir risks emphasizing prettiness at the expense of grit, so, to keep the balance in our version, I incorporated rawness through the instruments.
The result is an unusual synthesis of beauty and rawness that is a perfect complement to his lyrics. Will says: “Part of what gives Leonard Cohen’s songs such power is the combination of his low, limited and raspy voice with relatively traditional sounding, and singable, music. The late Leonard Cohen’s is increasingly recognized as a profound, profoundly Jewish songwriter, and Will Robertson’s arrangement of his “Anthem” for chorus, strings, and piano goes beyond a mere cover to bring to life the vivid center of Cohen’s poetry.
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