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BarlowGirl might look like a Christian teen pop group on the cover of their crossover-minded third album, How Can We Be Silent, but they sound like a Christian Evanescence, singing harmonies in fifths over dark, roiling riffs and all manners of gothic textures. In this brooding atmosphere, such Christian calls to arms like the title track feel not inspiring but ominous, as if nonbelievers should take their faith as a threat. BarlowGirl do this gothic rock about as appealingly as Evanescence, but they're a bit more charming when the cloud lifts just a bit, like on the charmingly off-kilter "Onemore… More Round" that opens with Mellotrons and waltzes into some psychedelic jazz, or when they punch the melodies a little bit harder as on "Take My Chance," a piece of barbed melodic pop-punk that also showcases the trio's harmonies. "Take Me Chance" is the anomaly: most of the album is overly labored, either in its crushed velvet guitars or noisy, cluttered multi-segmented songs. It's certainly more interesting than a lot of CCM rock — and a lot of secular rock in this vein, for that matter — but not necessarily a lot more successful.

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CD

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BarlowGirl - How Can We Be Silent (2008) Retail CD

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