hubcab being thrown across the studio floor during the instrumental break of "Someone's Calling." Roy referred to Youth Choir's early style as the "San Francisco Sound," but the band's influences at this time were primarily British, being described by one critic as "The Cure on Prozac." Before the album's release, the band convinced the label brass to let them re-record "A Million Years" as a full band, with Mark Heard as producer, Bill Batstone on bass and including newly-hired Dan Michaels on Lyricon, before issuing that single to Christian radio. While in the studio with Heard, Youth Choir also re-recorded "Another World" as well as two new tracks: "We Should Be Dancing," and an early version of "All Night Long," the latter of which would be recorded again for the Shades of Gray EP. The re-recorded versions of "A Million Years" and "All Night Long" would officially be released on the compilation album Love Songs and Prayers: A Retrospective in 1995, with the other two tracks appearing on the "Nevermind the Extras" disc in the Choir's Never Say Never: The First 20 Years boxed set in 2000. Critical reception At the time of the album's release, CCM Magazine (during its brief run as the retitled Contemporary Christian Magazine) did not do a formal review of Voices in Shadows, but included a brief overview of the album as part of a special section entitled "New Faces in Music." Writer Scott Pinzon was critical of Youth Choir's first effort, saying the album "lacks variety, so the tunes tend to blend." Including the Imitators’ first EP in his assessment, Pinzon wrote that, "both bands suffer from low budgets, relatively inexperienced producers, and heavy-handed lyrics." Contemporary Christian Magazine′s sister publication Musicline was far more charitable. Reviewer Brian Quincy Newcomb called the "Flock of Seagulls- and Police-influenced" album "a fine debut," saying that the trio of Daugherty, Hindalong and Sauerbrey "have captured a sound that is vital and interesting, while speaking with sincerity and sensitivity." Retrospective critical reaction has also been more favorable. Mark Allender at AllMusic called Youth Choir's debut a "nice effort" with "creative guitar work," and added that, "on its own merit [...] this release can be disappointing, but taken in the context of [the Choir's] later work, one can get a taste of the seeds that brought out their later successes." In a review of the 2000 CD reissue of Voices