CCM’s Ross Cluver called Amanda Danziger’s new “Head and Heart” album “The best thing I heard today.”

Cluver applauds Amanda for delivering a new, “refreshingly elegant” sound to contemporary worship music that all too often “sounds the same to me.”

“Today, I discovered this wonderful new worship leader named Amanda Danziger, a first-generation American from an Egyptian-coptic (basically Eastern Orthodox for those of you who don’t know) family, who is a worship leader and songwriter from Allentown, PA,” Culver writes.

“This project is refreshingly elegant. It’s stripped-down, yet not simple,” he continues. “The string arrangements make it stand apart from all of the synth-heavy worship that currently dominates the worship scene.”

Here is a sample: