Sony Music Entertainment Australia
Release Date: May 16th 2020
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Delta Goodrem– Keep Climbing (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Sony Music Entertainment Australia
Release Date: May 16th 2020
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Delta Goodrem– Keep Climbing (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Independent
Release Date: May 8th 2020
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Brandon Heath– Faces On A Train (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Forefront Records
Release Date: May 8th 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
TobyMac – The Lost Demos (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
One Voice Productions LLC
Release Date: November 1st 2019
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Peter Hollens – Magically Legendary Covers, Vol. 1 (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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Def Jam Recordings / Maise Music Publishing LLC
Release Date: April 3rd 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Alessia Cara – I Choose (From The Netflix Original Film The Willoughbys) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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Wellhouse Studios
Release Date: February 28th 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Shane & Shane – Hymns In the Round (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Gotee Records
Release Date: May 8th 2020
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Finding Favour– I Believe In You (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Bethel Music
Release Date: January 10th 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Cory Asbury – Reckless Love (feat. Tori Kelly) (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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As I reflect upon the 50 blogs I have written so far in my journey of exploring a myriad of musical genres and understanding that regardless of genre, God Himself can use whatever, whomever, and whichever, to show people things about themselves that maybe need to be addressed, or even show people things about Himself that people indeed need to address as well; I’ve come to realise a few things. One things for certain, I don’t know much about music that I initially thought I did coming into this experimental project. I was humbled, in a good way. I delved into the genres of country, exploring the likes of Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and Shania Twain, to name a few, who have made a tremendous impact on today’s society and music in general, while I also dived deep down into the unknown with the realisation that rap/hip-hop wasn’t as scary as I initially thought, with the exploration of Christian hip-hop (CHH) crossover icon Lecrae. I immersed myself into the pioneers of CCM in artists like DC Talk, Steven Curtis Chapman, Carman and Michael W. Smith; while also taking to the artists that themselves have had quite a big of success in both CCM and mainstream- Switchfoot, Skillet and needtobreathe. Now here I am about to move into my 51st post (wow, already more than ½ way in my journey through this list- then it’s off to the timeless ones!), and I realise this- that the more you don’t know about a certain particular genre, or a certain artist, or the more you realise you don’t know about the things that you don’t know, you start to develop a bit of a hunger to know, to understand, to travel deep within the crevices and cracks of whatever genre you are discovering next, and realise that every musical genre out there, no matter how foreign it may be to you, will still impact someone in the world on their journey in life.
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Have you ever stopped to wonder about influence, impact, popularity, determination, poise, grace, just a general sense of identity, self, command, authority, and how you carry yourself? I reckon it all comes down to confidence, and sometimes acting like you’re successful even if you’re not. But more often than not recently, the thought has indeed crossed my mind of ‘when’ is it in life that we become aware of these big important things that we need to talk about, and ‘when’ is it in life that we start acting as if we do have the ability to change the world in whatever way we’re called to do? The other week I wrote about how in this time of global pandemic and how we as humans are stuck at home quarantining, staying safe and healthy- about how we should try to see the good, the glory in the grind; this past week my thoughts drove back to that Louie Giglio sermon- which by the way I reckon is one of the most relevant sermons you could ever watch this year!- and to the point of when is it that we realise that we ourselves can make a difference in this world, no matter how big or small we are, and no matter how little we think of ourselves?