I usually don't delve into rock and roll on Everyday Liturgy but Switchfoot's new album Hello Hurricane is an album I could listen to everyday, so I guess that meets one of the prerequisites, no?

The album is harder, more complex, fuller, and broader in tone, tempo, and timbre (the three T's of good music!) than previous albums.  The music is like the band finally got together and decided to make the album they always wanted to but were never allowed to by big record labels trying to build on their A Walk to Remember following.

This album could not be featured in A Walk to Remember, and that, more than anything, makes it one of the best, if not the best, Switchfoot albums out there.

Then there is Monsters of Folk's eponymous album, a super band collaboration album that does not fail under the weight of sheer greatness.  They go for the less is more approach, doing what they all do well separately by doing it all well together.

The music is surprisingly theodic and meditative.  The first song "Dear God" is a humble conversation with a God that allows some things that just don't make sense to happen.  But where many of these types of songs either end in a superficial "we know you're awesome anyway even with all this evil and pain that doesn't make any sense" approach or the final verse being a big apathetic middle finger at God.  It was refreshing that the tension concerning God is allowed to exist as the first song on the album, a kind of testiment to the group's plumbing of the depths of humanity as well as the humility to not say more than they can understand.