Hannah Beck
Written on You
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Singer/songwriter Hannah Beck is hot on the Christian music circuit, having just won the top prize at this summer’s Sonshine Music Festival tournament, but her goal for her latest album, Written on You, is to make music with a Christian message that can touch non-Christians as well. The result is a collection of songs that come at the listener from different directions but still arrive at the same destination.
Take, for example, “Done with You,” a song that, on its face, is about a young woman stepping confidently away from a dysfunctional, abusive relationship. It works well from that personal, specific vantage point, but Beck was shooting for something more metaphorical, like the contrast between the relationships that a Christian has with Satan and Christ.
The same types of double meanings come into play in songs like “Cracks,” which is a plaintive call for support, and the title track, which could be read as a statement about personal history as much as it is about redemption. “You Are” comes the closest to being an explicitly Christian song, but even it can function as much on a human level as on a spiritual level.
Beck delivers all the songs with a powerful vocal style that is reminiscent of 90s singers like Sarah McLachlan or Dolores O’Riordan of the Cranberries, but she has a contemporary edge too: think a slightly more forceful version of Christina Perri.
Evan Gillespie
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Robert Williams: SLANG Aesthetics! — An exhibition of new work by the artist considered the godfather of the lowbrow, pop surrealist and colloquial realism art movements, Tuesday-Sunday thru July 23, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, $6-$8 (members, free), 422-6467
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