Tim Mann - The Dream Is Ended; This Is The Morning
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The Dream Is Ended; This Is The Morning
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14 Sep 2010
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We have been so lucky at LTTM over the last year to be sent e-mails from artist telling us about their latest album release, and what we have found over the year is how many great creative songwriters there are out there. So it is a privilege for me to introduce you to Mr Tim Mann.
Tim is a worship leader from Canada, after he left school he traveled to Scotland to spend a year doing worship and youth ministry at a church in Aberdeen. He then enrolled in the Hillsong College in Australia and spent a year in Sydney in...
Read More We have been so lucky at LTTM over the last year to be sent e-mails from artist telling us about their latest album release, and what we have found over the year is how many great creative songwriters there are out there. So it is a privilege for me to introduce you to Mr Tim Mann.
Tim is a worship leader from Canada, after he left school he traveled to Scotland to spend a year doing worship and youth ministry at a church in Aberdeen. He then enrolled in the Hillsong College in Australia and spent a year in Sydney in the Worship and Creative Arts Program. Returning to Canada Tim released his debut EP 'forweallhaveapart' in 2009 and is now releasing his latest offering 'The Dream is Ended; This is The Morning'.
The album starts in a very bizarre way to most worship albums, usually worship albums kick in with big drums or a big riff, yet this album starts with an atmospheric riff and Tim singing out praises to God, pure brilliance. The album then kicks into life with the rocking praise song Our Hope Is Real and if you like your worship music from bands like Yfriday this will be your kind of song. Moving on to other tracks, I love the simplicity of the song Stronger, Tim shows us the creative side of his songwriting in this song which has a similar feel and sound to the Scottish band Superhero.
Tim is at his strongest as a songwriter and singer during the reflected slower intimate worship songs on this album. He doesn't rush his songs or try to catch your attention with big riffs and big drums, he lets the music talk for itself. A lot of songs on this album are aloud to build slowly into a crescendo of powerful music. The perfect example of this is the amazing Oh God Our Refuge and also Glory To God, both songs being over 6 minutes long, and both slowly building into worshipful moments that will take your breath away. Oh God Our Refuge is a track you have to hear and by the end I'm sure you will be hands up in air singing along, praising our God.
You can hear Tim's influences coming through the album, he names Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley and Oasis as some of his early influences, yet at the same time Tim has his own style that you could only describe as Tim's sound.
One song that is truly remarkable is the simplistic Won't You Please Come Home, there isn't much to this song lyrically, just an out pouring in the repeated cry of "Won't You Please Come Home". There is beauty in the simplicity of this song, pure genius.
A wonderful worship album, lyrically all the songs are usable in your local church, yet this isn't just another worship album with a different singer playing the same old chords that comfortably work, this is Tim playing songs he would use in his times of worship and thankfully he has given them to us as a tool to be used in our praises to God.
Review by Jono Davies
LTTM Rating 4 out of 5 Stars
Standout Tracks
Stronger
Oh God Our Refuge
Won't You Please Come Home
