First Company Records
Release Date: April 15th 2014
Reviewed by Joshua Andre
Stellar Kart– Frozen EP (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
First Company Records
Release Date: April 15th 2014
Reviewed by Joshua Andre
Stellar Kart– Frozen EP (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Shae Shoc Records
Release Date: May 6th 2014
Reviewed by Micah Garnett
Beckah Shae – Champion (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
MercyMe, one of my favourite bands of all time, recently released a music video for their song ‘Shake’, the first radio single from their most recent album Welcome To the New. The video, which premiered in November 2013, featuring the five members of the band singing in a diner and dancing 50s style, complete with the whole package of suits, weird dance moves, and a whole lot of criticism that comes along with making a music video (because frankly, whenever someone makes a video, there’s always positive and negative comments). Just looking through the comments on the youtube link page makes me understand more fully that there are some people who just want to comment negatively because they can. With comments like the dancing was lewd and suggestive, to other comments that felt the dancing was over the top, or the song wasn’t explicit enough when it comes to singing about Christ’s love; ‘Shake’ has possibly been one of the most controversial CCM songs within the last few months.
Mike Donehey, lead singer of Tenth Avenue North, is quite possibly one of my favourite speakers alive (aside from Louie Giglio). And the fact that Mike isn’t really a speaker by profession, but rather a lead singer of a band that could quite possibly be one of my favourite bands throughout these last few years is something. With such a great ability and knack to bring listeners into his heartfelt stories behind some of the greatest CCM songs in most recent history, Mike, while famous for his songs and the performance of them, is also famous for the vast amount of video devotionals he has done and placed on youtube at various points throughout the years.
BEC Recordings
Release Date: May 6th 2014
Reviewed by Joshua Andre
The Museum– What We Stand For (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Since when are lyric videos interesting? I mean they’re normally just fancy written words on a plain coloured background, and nothing really fancy, right?