Editing ¡Alarma! (album) (section)

==Background==
''¡Alarma!'', released weeks after the band's [[the Beatles|Beatles]]- and [[the Beach Boys|Beach Boys]]-influenced ''[[Horrendous Disc]]'', took a decidedly [[New wave music|new wave]] direction along the lines of [[Elvis Costello]] or [[Talking Heads]].

Lyrically, the album contains social commentary so harsh that ''CCM'' described it as "perhaps the most scathing ever put out by a Christian label."<ref name="CCM_3_10"/> Other critics offered the following assessments: "the most exciting release of the year"; "brash, new and intensely creative" and "possibly the most significant album in the genre of Christian rock".<ref name=MAP>{{cite book |last1=Powell |first1=Mark |title=The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music |date=2003 |publisher=Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. |location=Peabody, MA |isbn=1-56563-679-1 |page=229}}</ref>
''¡Alarma!'' was the first of a [[tetralogy|four-part series]] of albums by DA entitled ''[[The ¡Alarma! Chronicles]]'', which also included the albums ''[[Doppelgänger (Daniel Amos album)|Doppelgänger]]'', ''[[Vox Humana (Daniel Amos album)|Vox Humana]]'', and ''[[Fearful Symmetry (album)|Fearful Symmetry]]''. This album, along with the other three albums from the Alarma! Chronicles, was rereleased as part of the ''Alarma! Chronicles'' book set in 2000. The book set included three CDs and a hardcover book of lyrics, photos, liner notes, essays, interviews and other information that amounted to over 200 printed pages.

Bass guitarist Marty Dieckmeyer left the band before the ''¡Alarma! Tour'', and was replaced with bassist [[Tim Chandler]].

This album was listed at No.&nbsp;62 in the book ''[[CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music]]'' (Harvest House Publishers, 2001).<ref name=MAP/>{{rp|pg 232}}