David Bazan's Crisis of Faith

David Bazan gained fame as Christian rock's first indie crossover success. The now-defunct bands Pedro the Lion and Headphones reaped secular audiences, despite soundly Christian songs. In recent years Bazan has wrestled with his own faith, and with alcoholism.

His first full-length solo album, Curse Your Branches, which comes out next week, presents some serious challenges to the answers prescribed by Christianity. It's a deeply personal album - there are notes of grief, regret, anger and confusion in these songs.

David Bazan will be in New Hampshire tonight to play a sold out show at a home in Sanbornton. But before he hit the road, he took a moment to join us from the studios of WNYC in New York.