Music

The Arc

From Pride to Praise. In the Little Things. Break the Cage. Sweet Release.

The four albums form one sentence -- a single psychological and theological arc, named before the meaning was understood. Sixty-two songs across four records that trace one man's path from waking up to his own pride, through the wounds that pride caused and received, through the crystallization of a new conviction (truth without grace is a cage), to the quiet acceptance of who he is and the promise that one day the glass will finally fall.

• Album 1 -- From Pride to Praise: the confession; a man tearing down his own temple, brick by brick.
• Album 2 -- In the Little Things: the wounds surface; growth through the bleeding.
• Album 3 -- Break the Cage: the thesis crystallizes; truth without grace is a cage.
• Album 4 -- Sweet Release: the quiet; the curator can finally stop, the glass falls, fully known and seen face to face.

Two more albums sit beside the arc as companions, not part of it: Ditch the Garbage! -- four songs that throw off churchianity and refuse to run the hunt -- and Still the First Time -- eleven songs that name what is being seen for the first time and stay there.

Below: the two companion albums first, then the four arc albums in reverse chronological order (newest first). Or hear all seventy-seven songs woven into one progression on All Music, which orders the catalog by the overall arc rather than by album.