Unexpected Lea

Every so often there comes an album which is special. An album which, for you at that time, gives new life to a genre you though was dead, uninteresting or irrelevant. It's like buying an album that you always knew you should buy, but never quite got round to, and when you finally do... you understand what all the fuss was about. Like getting tired of jungle and then hearing "New Forms" by Roni Size, and understanding just how exciting it was to be there in the first place. Like wading through the endless late-80s shred treacle, soulless and self-gratifying, and then hearing "Passion And Warfare" and realising that it is possible to do technical guitar music and keep the soul and elegance alive. Like being put off later Fleetwood Mac by blinkered traditionalist guitarists and then hearing "Tango In The Night".

That's how I feel about "Hold Your Colour" by Pendulum. Go and buy it at once.

Christian rock is still waiting for an album like it. Hurry up!