#7 - Burn for You

#7:
Artist: Steve Fee
Album: Burn for You
Released: January 2007

Coming in at the bottom end of this year’s countdown is the actually the first album on the list to be released this year; I purchased it at the Passion 2007 conference in January, where I was privileged to hear Steve Fee lead worship, a treat rarer these days now that 7:22 has changed directions and Steve Fee no longer leads worship regularly within my local area. If you have heard Steve’s first album, Sacred Space (an album that has previously appeared on my top eleven albums of all time), you can expect something vastly different from Burn for You. Where Sacred Space is quiet moment of intimacy with God, Burn for You is a blaring declaration of the glory of God as revealed in the work He is doing on this earth. The album could be described in a word as “loud,” though not obnoxiously so. It is loud in the sense that Steve Fee has something to say and he says it unashamedly. The music is primarily driven by electric guitar, with some U2-esque builds in songs such as the title track, “Burn for You,” though there are some nice moments of piano melody in the quieter and more reflective “Grace Will Be My Song.” Steve has always had a talent for song-writing, and certainly some of his best yet are found on this album. The album is vocally strong throughout. One important note: if you are looking to buy the CD, it was actually re-released later in the year under the title We Shine and the shortened band name: Fee. Very slight changes were made to the track list.