Jars of Clay explore relationships and community in forthcoming album

|PIC1|Acclaimed rock band Jars of Clay, known for its ground-breaking, intelligent music and humanitarian work worldwide, artfully explores matters of relationship and community through the songs on its tenth studio album The Long Fall Back To Earth.

The highly anticipated 14-track project releases on April 21 on Gray Matters/Essential Records.

From the band's earliest days to the present, innovation has marked each step of Jars of Clay's musical journey with The Long Fall Back To Earth serving as no exception. It's a big, lush, confident, gutsy sound that dominates the new tracks, leaving the listener with a different thought.

The project's debut single, "Two Hands", released to US radio January 30. It is receiving praise from programmers everywhere and is quickly shooting up the AC/CHR charts. One of the songs the band considers a cornerstone for the project as a whole, "Two Hands" deals with our inborn, yet often unspoken desire to just do more for our world, while struggling to keep our innate selfishness in check.

"That song touches a very simple longing in our hearts for unity under one roof, so to speak," Dan Haseltine says. "One side of us wants to serve Christ and love others, while the other side is concerned only with looking out for ourselves. By reconciling the sides of our heart -- both good and bad -- to bring the full weight of who we are in Christ, we can use our hands to serve and love others well in a way that honours Him."