As the Christmas season rapidly approaches, so too does the familiar sounds of bells, chimes, screams, and crunching guitars. That's right; Wolves at the Gate has returned with more post-Hardcore Christmas-themed music. The Lowborn EP is a five-track collection of holiday tunes, and fans of the genre will not want to miss this eclectic project.

Longtime followers of Wolves at the Gate will doubtlessly recognize the majority of these tracks: The title track, "Lowborn," was released last year, and "Come Thou Long Expected Jesus" made an earlier appearance on a Solid State Christmas compilation eight years ago. "The King" was also released as a single back in 2012, but slipped under the radar for many due to its standalone nature...

2020 was a good year for music, in my humble opinion, with quite the handful of albums that I loved and still keep in rotation. And right up near the top of the list is Fractioned Heart by an artist which, for me, was a random find called Gable Price and Friends. Since that album's release, the band has put out two EPs and a stellar standalone single ("You Are My Country"), had a slight change in line-up, and signed to perhaps the biggest Christian label in the world, Capitol CMG. Several months after the Capitol announcement in June, they're already unleashing their major label debut, The Consequence of Being Alive...

There is nothing about the aesthetics and art in Lecrae's newest mixtape that even closely resembles something you would find in a church setting. This is a key point that Crae himself gives a nod to by admitting that he is "righteous but rachet." It's this crux that drives the entire narrative that is his attempt to find a balance of reconstruction somewhere at the intersection of the sacred and the secular.

Church Clothes 4 is the final mixtape in a series of four, one made up of 13 songs with features from some heavy hitters ranging from A.I. to Andy Mineo and WHATUPRG. Musically, the album is Lecrae in top form as his beats, ranging from R&B to Trap, sound inventive and engaging. This should come as no surprise for anyone that has followed his career, because Lecrae has always had his eyes and ears tuned to the sounds...