Is Neal Morse even capable of taking a break? Since 1995’s debut with Spock’s Beard it’s hard to find a year where the man hasn’t put out music, whether with his various group projects including Transatlantic, The Neal Morse Band, and Flying Colors, his trio with Nick D’Virgilio and Ross Jennings…the list goes on, and doesn’t even begin to cover the various solo works since his conversion to Christianity and leaving Spock’s Beard. Last year’s No Hill For A Climber showed what Morse could do with a bunch of younger musicians working his tried and true prog rock template, and this year he switches things up slightly by forming Cosmic Cathedral, wrangling in a bunch of veteran players like Chester Thompson and Phil Keaggy to give us Deep Water, a collection of heavily Christian-themed progressive rock that largely remains within Morse’s wheelhouse while offering a few new subtle shades thanks to his sidemen.

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