Christmas. The time for family, friends, love, and God.

And gift cards to stores. For Christmas, I recieved a gift card to Target. Great, I figure. Now I can buy one of the cds I've been waiting for. Or clothes. Or make-up. Yeah, that would be good. I'm running out....right. Admist the unusually empty store, I wander around, aimlessly, looking at the rackes of secular music, trying to spy a name I trust. MCR, FOB, Green Day...sure, they all sound great, but really. What's the motive behind thier lyrics? Finally, I see The Fray, Relient K, and some other bands that I like.

Then, like a proverbial slap in the face, the Special Edition Bonus DVD version of Flyleaf's debut album shouts out at me. I look at the price. $15? No problem. Besides, it comes with a poster. Like I don't have enough of those already. But they're all signed, so I make room on my wall for them.  The album cover doesn't do the cd any justice. As I listen to Flyleaf cranked up to 9, I can't figure out why I didn't buy this cd before......maybe I was just waiting for them to include the bonus dvd with music videos.

From Websters Dictionary, one of the free endpapers of a book. A blank page, waiting for someone to dedicate the book to someone, or perhaps write a letter to a loved one. A blank canvas. Yet the band by the same name is everything but a blank void. Flyleaf touches the listener's hearts (and ears) by pairing past pains and heartaches with the promises of a new beginning.  Sometimes, Lacey Mosely gives a eerie sound to her songs, resembling the secular band Evanescence.

Most of Flyleaf's songs are about the traumatic dark emotions that people encounter at one point in life, such as abuse, neglect, addiction and dysfunction. But instead of the negative outlook on life from Lacey Mosely's prior band, Flyleaf gives broken hearts a chance at hope. 

 I'm So Sick, starts out with Mosely's almost etheral singing, only leading to the screams that, somehow, suit the overtly feminine Mosely. Which is really what Flyleaf is all about.  Maybe that's why it's the first song....

Cassie is the heart-wrenching song based on the horrific story of Cassie Bernall and her fellow students of Columbine High, who, in the face of death, profess their faith in God. When I thought this song couldn't become any more emotional, Flyleaf let out their acoustic version of Cassie. The acoustic Cassie is so beautiful, and watching the music video along with it will bring shivers to your spine.

No matter how alike the Flyleaf songs sound, this band won't ever sound bad. The S.E. cd with the acoustic performances adds to Flyleaf's sound, giving them a new edge.

-throughtheblack

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