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A Collision is one of the best things to ever come across my ears. Out of the 100+ albums I own, this is one of my favorites.
I bought the album a year ago after falling in love with David Crowder*Band's more recent Church Music. The first time I listened to A Collision I thought it was decent, but I will admit I was not blown away. But after a few days I found myself craving "Here is Our King," so I went back and listened to it, only to find myself listening to a few others as well. A few days after that I decided to give the album another go while I washed my car. THAT was when this album grabbed me by the ears and I had a hard time paying attention to washing my car. I was hooked!
A Collision is not something I listen to often--I reserve it and savor it on special occasions. In fact, the last time I listened I even made it into an event--I shut my bedroom door, turned off the light, and just lay there on the bed with my headphones on, letting the music wash over me. This stuff is deep. God deep. It demands attention, so if you are going to listen, give A Collision the respect it deserves.
I find the album a blend of relaxing thoughtfulness and inspiring energy which results in a very uplifting, encouraging experience that boosts my spirits with each listen. A theme runs throughout the album, as characterized by the band's quote as found on the booklet: "When our depravity meets His divinity it is a beautiful collision." Based upon this statement, some truly wonderful Biblical themes resound throughout. "Wholly Yours" is a good way to sum this up: "I am full of earth. You are heaven's worth. I am stained with dirt, prone to depravity. You are everything that is bright and clean, the antonym of me. You are divinity. But a certain sign of grace is this: From the broken earth flowers come up pushing through the dirt. You are holy, holy, holy."
The songs of this album exemplify our depraved (imperfect) nature and contrast this with God's holy (perfect) nature, yet tell of His wonderful love for us and how despite our fallen state we may obtain His righteousness through faith. David Crowder puts it this way in the booklet: God is way up there and we are way down here, but although our feet are on the ground we walk around in the sky. God's loving grace reaches us wherever we are; we just need to remember that. That is where the name of the album draws its title: our depravity collides with God's divinity, changing us and making us into what we should be. It is a story of hoping for deliverance from our struggles in life, of trusting in something bigger than ourselves, mankind, or the fallen world that we live in. So "Come and listen, come to the water's edge all you who are thirsty, come."
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