Claude says:Charlie Hall spent 15 years crisscrossing rock, folk, and electronic forms, all while writing worship songs that refused easy truisms. The Bright Sadness lands somewhere between liturgy and the everyday — it's both joyful and sorrowful, wrapping dense images of life with God in compositions you could carry with you. You grabbed it the month it came out in 2008 and lived hard in "Hookers And Robbers" and "You Are God" for a few months before it receded into memory.