Despite releasing an album every couple years since 1985(!) and having a dedicated cult following, it is hard to find people who have heard of The Choir. I don't know why they are so invisible and ignored, but they have always been supported by their tight fan base (which explains why Wikipedia, with its open-contributor policy, gives the band several lengthy sections while AllMusic and their selected fleet of music writers give the band's profile only two sentences). It could be they way they've been [mis]marketed over the years. Too artsy and intelligent and coffee-house for the general CCM crowd, but too Jesusy for anybody else.
According to Last.fm's user-generated charts (which will wonderfully waste hours of your time) the average Choir listener tends to be very male and very 40-ish. So I guess if you're an old guy then this band is for you. But, as you can see, there are people like me who like Cat Power (although I'll be the first to admit I'm not a 22-year-old female) and still dig The Choir. So... whatever.
[Er... maybe I AM a 20-something woman]
The Choir is freely offering their 2010 album, Burning Like The Midnight Sun, on NoiseTrade. It's good. Surprisingly good, especially for a bunch of old guys. This isn't a re-formed Eagles halfheartedly
pulling themselves together for another easy-listening go-round. The
music here is fresh and alive and not at all what you would expect from a
group of guys who've been doing the same thing for almost thirty
years. Man, even U2 blanded out, but The Choir sound like they're
cutting these tracks with the exuberance of a first professionally made
album.
In that NoiseTrade download they also snuck in a track from their just-released album, "The Loudest Sound Ever Heard." The song has a 90's shoegazey glam vibe to it, so if you were into the Prayer Chain or Luxury then you might be into it. I don't know if the whole album sounds that way, but I do see Leigh Nash is featured on a track, so there's that.
http://www.noisetrade.com/thechoir
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