With the Christmas festivities rapidly approaching, I find appropriate to present you an album full of positivity, joy, hope and highness of spirit. No, it's not one of the hundreds of X-Mas EPs that are infesting the shops these days (how sad...), but the new worship album by Newsboys.
For those who don't them, Newsboys are a CCM poprock group founded in 1985 in Mooloolaba, Australia. They have scored 14 studio albums so far, six of which have been certified gold.
 |
They have just put out for Inpop Records their new album "God's Not Dead", the follow up to their massively successful "Born Again", which was released last year and debuted at number 4 on the main Billboard 200 chart.
Perfectly produced by Seth Mosley, the new record features 9 brilliant cover songs of christian anthems and 3 new original songs. Ok, there are maybe too much "Jesus here, Jesus there" for my tastes, but, beyond that, this is a very nice, uplifting, fresh pop-rock album, with great musicianship and songs delivered with the right dose of passion and intensity by ex-DC Talk singer Michael Tait.
You can download the first single, the title-track, for free at the band's website, where you can also stream a minute of all the songs of the record.
|