Album Notes

Aaron Niequist is a songwriter who was a worship leader at Willow Creek Church (Barrington, IL) and Mars Hill Bible Church (Grand Rapids, MI). Growing up listening to The Beatles, he fell in love with great melodies and songwriting. Upon discovering Keith Green and Ben Folds, he fell in love with injuring himself by pounding the piano. And being in high school during the whole grunge thing, he became absolutely committed to trying to create something honest. . .especially when writing songs about God and faith. There are way too many lies in today’s church music. Aaron has given the last ten years of his life to creating songs of searching, raging, discovering, enjoying, doubting, and hope for people who have given up on church but haven’t given up on God.

Aaron’s newest recording, “With Broken Fists” is a collection of prayers, pleas, and promises to God. (Alliteration is always awful.) Functionally, these songs were written to be sung by a group of people, but they’re actually quite personal. And by trying to give voice to a community, he discovered, almost accidentally, what that small voice inside of him was trying to make sense of. Those jumbled moments of wrestling with the mystery of it all found their way into these melodies and onto the CD. Musically, it sounds like a piano driven indie-rock band wrapping it’s arms around as many instruments and colors as it can find.