Relient K - Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand

At this point, Relient K is what dc Talk was a few years ago. Not many in the Christian music industry can match their popularity and success. They make listening to Christian music "cool" to all your friends. Man, even your friends love them too. Yep, three years at a national level, and these guys have immortalized themselves in the Christian music industry.

As for me? I love them. It’s incredible watching how huge these guys get. Not only that, but watching their music evolve and get better with each and every album - they are phenomenal. And Matt Thiessen’s skills as a songwriter are topnotch and still improving. So I’m going to ride this train as long as it continues moving, and I hope it never reaches the station.

Everything Relient K has touched up to this point has been gold. Everything. No exceptions. And this year for Christmas, they offer us their next attempt at reaching perfection, this time in the form of a Christmas album entitled (hilariously enough) Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand. And not only that, but it comes with a free copy of my pick for album of the year, Two Lefts Don’t Make a Right... But Three Do. (It’s packaged with the fifth and final cover of the disc.)

But is it just a gimmick to capitalize on what is becoming one of the most successful acts in Christian music history? Who knows? But if you take this Christmas offering at face value, this is truly a work of art. Relient K has outdone themselves again. This just may be perfection.

The album includes seven wonderful renditions of Christmas classics including "Angels We Have Heard on High," "Deck the Halls," and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." Ah, but it wouldn’t be Relient K without a little twist, would it? So, why not make the chorus of "Twelve Days of Christmas" go a little something like… Well, what’s a partridge? And what’s a pear tree? Well, I don’t know. So, please don’t ask me. But I can bet those are terrible gifts to get....

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