Now “Exodus” is an interesting conception, it is the Book of Exodus, yes, from the big book called “The Bible”. The story is told in a beat you’d rarely think of as “religious” though, it’s fast, it’s loud, it’s noisy — it is pure energy pumping at you from the word “Go”. I liked it the first time I heard it, and it grew on me.

The opening track, “Go” is good, it sets the stage, establishes the mood and winds itself up to “Wonders of You” — a track I’ve heard so many times now it feels like a familiar beat through my veins. I love this track. The tone, the pace, the movements, the lot of it. Even if you know whom the author thought about as he wrote the text, it’s easy to see, and feel, how it matches other aspects of life. It’s a stellar track, one of my all-time favorites.

From here we move into “Radiate” onto “Amazing” and well, just onwards. It’s really a great piece of work. Hours could be spent on each track. The soundscape Hunter produces is fantastic. It really is. It brims with energy, but also with heart and soul.  Now, you might ask if being religious helps you when listening to “Exodus”, and to be honest, I wouldn’t know. What I do know is that I love listening to the album.

Man. Some things come back to bite you. I love this album. It’s just damn solid for what it aims to be. It creates a fabled landscape of sound as tracks mingle and voices lure, it moves moods and sensations through phases as its clock ticks, it rivets and releases, it tenses and unfolds, it naturally flows where ever it goes and it all comes together to make “Reverence” very pleasant for both background ambiance and for pure listening. Another thing, tracks vary from 3:05 to 10:47. Every track is its own mistress. They get the time they need, no more, no less. This probably helps a lot to make it feel as solid as the album is mostly perceived.

A few individual tracks do stand out, but all in all it’s a solid album. There isn’t anything in it that makes me want to desperately move on to the next track, this is always a nice thing. Like all music, it isn’t for everyone, but it made my morning, and for that I am grateful.