Welcome to the Welcome Wagon

This is a refreshing band with a lot to say. This is a very honest recording both sonically and lyrically. It's very tough to do what they are doing without being pigeon toed into a genre of boring monotany. Music in the "Christian" market is (IMO) usually very cliche and not well thought out... but Welcome To The Welcome Wagon is surely heartfelt and very well crafted! No slick Nashville production or 2 year old "Top 40" type songs written with Godly Lyrics... just sweet, raw, and beautiful music! This should make many people and musicians rethink what religious music can be and should be... top notch and different! There are no rules when you are creating songs and Sufjan stuck to that when producing this. His influence and creativity really make this record shine. Don't draw up any preconceptions before you listen to this record... it will make you smile on the inside!

It might be interesting to note that the Vito Aiuto was actually the lead singer on Sufjan Stevens' Christmas songs "I Saw Three Ships" and "Once In David's Royal City". You might not have noticed, though, because his voice sounds quite a bit like Sufjans' but a little less airy.

Crypto Christian and uber effeminate pop poser Sufjan Stevens manages to take over someone's project....again. This time the record is not so crypto but it's still very much a vehichle for Stevens to experiment with is orchestrations. The sound is his through and through which makes me wonder if this was just him pretendeing to be another band. To his credit the lyrics are not the run of the mill yeah Jesus campfire fluff that has made up most of the christian pop of the last 50 decades. Still I found this exersise exasporating and found myself tuning out halfway through.

this album is raw, get down to the truth stuff. I recommend it to everyone