Essential Worship
Release Date: October 30th 2020
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Koryn Hawthorne– The Song Sessions (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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Essential Worship
Release Date: October 30th 2020
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Koryn Hawthorne– The Song Sessions (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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Provident Label Group
Release Date: September 18th 2020
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Koryn Hawthorne– I AM (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
One Wish: The Holiday Album
Label: Arista Records
Release Date: November 18th 2003 (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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Think about life for a moment in all it’s ebbs and flows. It’s ups and downs, ins and outs, valleys and peaks. It’s not that hard to do now, when we see what’s happening with the world, with COVID-19 wreaking havoc around the world. We look at our lives and think and wonder. What are the constants in our lives when everything around us seems be less certain? And then hopefully we start to think, and we can then write them all down. Our friends and family. Check. Our relationship with God. Check. Our endless supply of DVD’s and movies, the streaming services of Stan, Foxtel, Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV and Disney +. Check. Well…then again, maybe streaming services isn’t as constant in our lives as we ourselves initially think. But you get the picture. And then last but not least, something in our lives that has been constant for forever, in ways that maybe we ourselves don’t even know it, is in fact music. Music, just like film and TV, has the power to delve deep into our souls, and minister to our very core of our humanity, hopefully bringing to light, issues that maybe we ourselves need to work on, while also highlighting our very relationships with our friends, family and God Himself, in the whole process of us enjoying a song and reflecting on its meaningful lyrics. For me, music has always been a staple in my life for as long as I can remember- I started listening to children’s music like The Donut Man and Psalty the Singing Songbook when I was younger, and as time went on, my musical tastes continued to expand. Artists like Delirious?, Carman, Steven Curtis Chapman, Chris Tomlin, Newsboys, Tim Hughes and Rebecca St. James were all artists I thoroughly listened to throughout my primary and high school years, while my university days were impacted by a lot of CCM- artists like the ones aforementioned, alongside others- Third Day, Casting Crowns, MercyMe, Nichole Nordeman, Natalie Grant, Bebo Norman, Kerrie Roberts, Paul Baloche, Phil Wickham, Matthew West, Kari Jobe, Britt Nicole, BarlowGirl, Hawk Nelson, Sanctus Real, Building 429, David Crowder*Band, and Jason Gray (to name a few of the many, many artists we- my twin brother and I, branched out into). Now here I am in 2020, one year and a half into my blog series, and my musical tastes have continued to grow and expand even further. Yes, this blog series (which you can read more about here) has been daunting and at times, uncertain, but on a holistic level, has also been rewarding, as I felt the Lord’s presence and Him speaking to me through a lot of music that one wouldn’t necessarily call ‘Christian’. And that was my own conundrum that I was working through- and am still working through. I’ve concluded that mainstream music isn’t ‘bad’, as a lot of fundamentalist Christians believe. And maybe I believed that statement too, even though I didn’t grow up in such a fundamentalist environment.
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Word Label Group
Release Date: May 1st 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
For KING AND COUNTRY – Together (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Fo Yo Soul Recordings/RCA Records
Release Date: May 31st 2019
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Kirk Franklin– Long Live Love (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Can I ask you guys a question? Not really a question that you are forced to answer right away, but a question, nonetheless, that you can sit on and dwell for a while. When you wake up in the morning, maybe around 6am when the sun rises, or perhaps at 10am after a good sleep in; how do you feel each day on average? Are you happy, or are you sad? Is your attitude ‘oh, it’s just another day, let me roll over, and sleep some more; and hopefully it’s over by the time I wake up again!’; or is it ‘Yay, thank God I’m alive, let’s get up and do all the things I want to do today!’? Are you a glass half full or half empty? I know for my life that there are times when I feel uninspired to do anything productive and worthwhile some days- and it’s true that some days you do need those lazy ones where you just sit back and relax, watching the world go by! However if by some chance you feel scared about what each day brings; and if you feel scared by what the future holds (scared you might fail or scared you might even succeed!); let me tell you that you don’t need to be.
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Stowtown Records
Release Date: August 10th 2018
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Taranda Greene– The Healing (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Provident Label Group
Release Date: January 25th 2019
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Kirk Franklin– Love Theory (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Provident Label Group
Release Date: September 28th 2018
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Israel Houghton– Road To DeMaskUs (Amazon mp3/iTunes)