One by Jason Earll & the Infinite Within
This first album by Jason Earll and his band of talented musicians is bright, upbeat, energetic and hopeful. A standout from the usual ballad-heavy singer-songwriter albums one often finds in the Posi/New Thought genre, this is a rock album, and it rocks!
I found this 6-song CD freshly reminiscent of certain beloved and iconic bands from the late 70s and early 80s—with rich stacked vocal harmonies, thick instrumental sounds, driving drum beats, soaring electric guitar solos, and solid bass licks. Although these are unquestionably “New Thought” songs written by someone steeped in those principles, the whole musical sound here takes center stage right along with the songs themselves, and Jason and his compadres are excellent musicians.
The opening track, “Blooming,” describes coming out of the gloom of winter and blooming, “tendril’s climbing,” into the springtime.
“There is Only One,” reassures that despite appearances of good, evil, beauty, ugliness, in the outer–we actually live in an inner, spiritual world, and it’s all God.
The vocal harmonies take the lead in the stirring refrain of “Peace (You are the Creator),” which reminds us the only way to have peace in the future is to choose peace now.
Jason has a knack of turning a phrase on its head, surprising you and making you think. In “There is Only One,” for instance, he describes the physical world as “so much less than it seems.” In “This is the Day” he celebrates the every day miracles (did you know gravity still works?) and offers proof of the day’s perfection by pointing out, “the sun is shining bright…somewhere beyond the gray.”
Continuing the recurring themes of hope, gratitude and self-responsibility are “This is the Day,” (call it good and it becomes so), the moving ballad, “Hope,” (find it inside), and the joyful “It’s So Easy to be Beautiful,” which suggests that our true beauty comes when we stop fighting life, swimming upstream, and just “let go.”
If you ever wanted a new thought album you could really rock out to, this may be the “One.”