PIONEERING WORSHIP BAND PRODUCES YET ANOTHER STELLAR OFFERING | Posted September 24, 2008 One thing is for sure, Sonicflood has always created cutting-edge worship music. Though the band’s name doesn’t carry the weight it did even five years ago, and it’s been 10 years since the band released its Gold-selling debut, the quintet continues to instill a formative presence among the leaders in modern worship music.

A Heart Like Yours, Sonicflood’s first independent record, offers 11 tight tracks beginning with the pulsatingopener “Look to Love.” With wall-to-wall guitar sounds and enough driving rhythmic force to cause even rock radio to pay attention, the band encourages love as a life compass: “If we just take a chance to love . . . Then we could be the light that’s leading our way home/If we all live for something/Then we won’t die for nothing.”

“Aiden” plows ahead with the same energetic force, letting each instrument’s delay wash over an anthem of epic proportions. “In Your Presence” solidifies the pop side of the band’s pop/rock fare with crispacoustic guitars and Rick Heil’s pristine vocal administering a simple song of praise without forfeiting production.

Supplemented by a solo piano, the title track once again utilizes Heil’s competence at the mic to record a personal prayer: “Hold me close enough to you/That I am broken/Whatever breaks your heart/Let it break mine too.”

Worship records are a dime dozen these days, but there is enough taut production and masterful musicianship accompanying the singable melodies and lyrics on this CD to justify more than one listen. A Heart Like Yours proves Sonicflood is still the cream of the crop. –Andrew Greer