Emergency.
The Ember Days mission remains intact: create music that will enable listeners to deeper encounter the presence of God, inspiring praise and thankfulness in the hearts of men. It’s a wake-up call to our generation – a plea to a sleeping church. “The title, Emergency, came from a dream I had of a burning house. It was on fire and there was sufficient time to put the fire out, but everyone in the house was asleep.” The ensuing lyrics were birthed from a place of personal growth and revelation. “God has been showing me how I need to match my priorities with His and love others as He loves me…with an unconditional love.” The Ember Days aspire to love with an undying love, encouraging a global body to live united for the glory of Jesus. They have traveled from one of the farthest reaches of the world, Auckland, New Zealand, to live a dream God has given them of serving the church and raising up a generation of Jesus-followers.
Here are four ways (not necessarily in sequence of importance) you can practically help The Ember Days carry out their mission:
1. Join Team Ember Days – it’s like supporting a missionary, just that these come with accessories like guitars and drums. Help fund their calling with whatever you can afford to spend on a monthly basis.
2. Get to know the band. Go worship with them. Talk to them after the show. Pray for them, ask them to pray for you.
3. Download Emergency as a gift now. While you’re at it, download every record they’ve released thus far! Make a one-time donation or buy some merch from their store.
4. Pray for the band and the individuals who make it up. Ask the Lord to protect them and keep them passionately in love with Him. Tell all your friends and family about them.
Thank you for taking the time to listen with us.
[...] The Ember Days are back with their newest release, Emergency. Earlier this year they gave us the single, Make Us One, allowing us a view of what a new full length would sound like. The long instrumentals of The Finger Painting EP have been shortened but the simplicity of their lyrics and message remain. This is the kind of music that is easy to get lost in and it becomes hard to differentiate one song from the next. Emergency creates a true atmosphere of worship with all focus directed to God. It fills the gap in my collection once occupied by The Glorious Unseen with some of the most haunting sounding yet truthful songs. You can tell that The Ember Days isn’t playing to the listener but to God and a means for you to get washed up in with the music. It surrounds you, swallows you, and and you get taken by the current, losing all control on your way to the divine. There are no specific standout tracks, the album stands as a whole. Fluid and cohesive moving without notice from one song to the next as a surrounding musical experience. Everything sounds so simplistic yet so full. Its another album to get lost in. I said it last time and I stand by it, The Ember Days have made the worship album that I’ve always wanted to hear. [...]