JesusfreakHideout.com: Top 100 Tooth & Nail Albums of All Time

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#4. Mae
The Everglow

Release Date: March 29, 2005

I did not like Mae when I first heard them. Destination: Beautiful did nothing for me at all, but then I saw Mae open for Relient K (with Name Taken) in February of 2005 -- right before the release of The Everglow. Mae resonated with me that night and I bought one of my favorite albums of all time just a month or two later. The Everglow is an album that lives up to the the band's name: Multi-sensory Aesthetic Experience. The full experience of the album requires you to listen while following along with the album insert. It's a wonderful album that still gets played regularly even after 13 years. Dave Elkins and company crafted a truly brilliant album with so many beautiful and extraordinary moments. The Everglow could've just as easily been number one this list.
- Michael Weaver

When it came time for me to pick my personal #1 Tooth & Nail album, the choice could not have been easier. No single album of music has been more important in my own life and the development of my personal musical tastes than The Everglow. As a teenager, I must have listened to this album hundreds of times from front to back. Listening to it now as an adult is an intense journey of nostalgia, and I simply can’t start the album without having to hear the whole story again from start to finish. It is beautiful in every sense; in the music itself, in the gorgeous liner notes art (courtesy of Ryan Clark of Demon Hunter fame), and in the redemptive story. While Destination: Beautiful was a very capable, emo-tinged rock debut, The Everglow was an absolutely astonishing progression in songwriting and musicianship so quickly for such a young band. I will always look back fondly on the emo golden days of Tooth & Nail with Mae, Anberlin, and Copeland all producing their best work, and this album is at the very top of the list for me.
- Timothy Estabrooks

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