Centricity Music
Release Date: July 23rd 2021
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Cross Point Music– Never Going Back EP (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Centricity Music
Release Date: July 23rd 2021
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Cross Point Music– Never Going Back EP (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Centricity Music
Release Date: September 3rd 2021
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Chris Renzema– Get Out of the Way of Your Own Heart (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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Centricity Music
Release Date: August 6th 2021
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Lauren Daigle– Tremble (Live) (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Elektra Records / Centricity Music
Release Date: July 29th 2021
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Needtobreathe – Into the Mystery (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Centricity Music
Release Date: July 16th 2021
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Brandon Heath – Human Nature – Single (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Centricity Music
Release Date: June 18th 2021
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Jason Gray – What I Wish For You – Single (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Motivational pop-rock isn’t necessarily all the rage, nowadays that is. Gone are the days of artists like the Goo Goo Dolls, Train and to some extent, Coldplay. Yes, these artists during their heyday (which unfortunately, isn’t really now) dominated the sonic landscape and created music with an inspirational edge, all the while utilising the mainstream music market and delivering songs of poignancy and fun, reminding us that it is ok to have a deep song right next to a jovial, fun track on a track-list on an album. Coldplay brought to us one of the 2000s best in ‘Fix You’, quite possibly for me, one of the top 5 songs to ever grace our ears in that decade. Also in the same decade was both Train and Goo Goo Dolls- Train brought to us the quirky and often nonsensical ‘Drops of Jupiter’ (but we all didn’t care, it’s still a classic song, all these years later), and even the thought-provoking ‘Calling All Angels’, ‘Marry Me’, ‘When I Look to the Sky’ and ‘If It’s Love’. And while the Goo Goo Dolls’ biggest hit ‘Iris’ was unveiled in the 1990s (1998 to be precise), the band still had relative success during the 2000s, with songs like ‘Big Machine’, ‘Here is Gone’, ‘Better Days’, ‘Give a Little Bit’, ‘Stay With You’ and ‘Sympathy’. Coldplay, Train and Goo Goo Dolls were all delivering what was considered to be popular during that era- motivational pop-rock, and while that type of branding has always been able to strike a chord with me (considering my own love of CCM and worship music, this umbrella of motivational pop-rock is something in the mainstream that can be very closely attributed to CCM/worship if ever someone was able to find a proverbial link there!), it seemed that as though time went on and music changed, the artists that changed with them seemed to not as care as much for the ‘motivational’ genre as the next guy, and started to place more emphasis on the glitz and glamour of the music, than the lyrics and music themselves. Which is a bit of a shame though- but when you do look around at the music of today, it can be hard pressed to find artists that seem to embrace the motivational pop-rock umbrella as well as bands like Train, Goo Goo Dolls and Coldplay did, way back in the 2000s. Sure, these three bands are still at it today, and are still delivering motivational pop-rock anthems for the masses, but there is where it all stops.
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Centricity Music / Elektra Records
Release Date: May 6th 2021
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Needtobreathe– Into The Mystery (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Centricity Music
Release Date: April 16th 2021
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Needtobreathe– Live From The Woods Vol. 2 (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Centricity Music
Release Date: February 26th 2021
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Lauren Daigle – Hold Onto Me (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)