Owl City drops Christian track

It's already well known that Owatonna's No. 1 hitmaker Owl City (aka Adam Young) is a devout Christian, but you wouldn't have known it just by listening to his music. Until now. The electro-pop singer issued a new track on his blog this morning that comes straight out of the contemporary Christian music world. It's a solo-piano version of "In Christ Alone," a song Keith Getty co-wrote with Stuart Townend and recorded with his wife Krystyn Getty. A growing favorite for contemporary church services, the tune kept Young up late last night, according to his blog. "Something about this song makes me [bawl] like a baby," he wrote in today's post. "Last night I probably spent more time actually crying at the piano than I did recording it. Such are the secret confessions of a shy boy from Minnesota."

Through the wonders of musicmaking technology -- which this guy is a poster-child for -- the recording is already available for listening. Click here to hear the track and read more of what Young had to say about it.

Young has been at home in Owatonna the past several weeks working toward his new album, which you can also read about on his blog. He's playing his first hometown show Sunday (Halloween) at the Owatonna High School gym, a fundraiser for the school's music/band program that sold out fast -- mostly through a pre-sale offer where the password was the school's mascot (Huskies).