CCM doesn't always suck.

I am a large advocate of not listening to CCM (Contemporary Christian Music), basically because 99.9% of it follows a simple premise: Get a sample of the top 20 bands doing well in the secular realm, then half-assedly do a knuckle-drag impersonation of them, but with cookie cutter Kumbayah lyrical content. Its utterly repetitively vapid and cheese-dipped production earmarks are so easy to spot its a wonder why the whole genre hasn't become the Pentacostal equivalent to Weird Al Yankovic style remakes. Wait a minute, it is.

Every once in a while, something great happens though, like King's X, but that is a complete anamaly (and even King's X has veered away from any association from CCM with the coming-out of singer/bassist Doug Pinnick, who felt abandoned by the community afterwards.)

I have however found a somewhat new band that does a good job of breaking slightly away from the CCM crappo script. MuteMath is apparently borne of the ashes of generally bad CCM band Earthsuit (they sucked pretty bad, akin to a complet implosion of random top 40 styles slapped together in a studio to sound like Jesus having a theological epileptic sound seizure), but this comes off as well crafted pop. Bits of the Police, Imogen Heap and Tears For Fears crop up in terms of whats borrowed, but the recording quality and the overal result are promising instead of stale. The lyrics are sufficiently inventive and sly that you can actually listen to them without feeling like a Gideon is trying to read to you with a bad backing track playing.