Category: Album – 6 tracks, runtime – 36 min
Genre: Contemporary Christian Music
Release Date: 29.November.2024
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ – 8/10
Nifty devotional joint right here. Couple of points; some pretty interesting choices made on the project. For one, it’s technically a full length album, being slightly over half an hour. But still, that’s all taken up by only half a dozen tracks, almost a third of which is consumed by a single track – the opener “Let Go”. What’s rather interesting is how it’s kept from getting tiring. Launching out in a cool muffled beat paralleled with a tranquil piano, the energy rises steadily to a full instrumental arrangement, complete with a strings-esque provision, and it adds a twist in its climax by opting for a baroque pop Pink Floydian child-choir vibe. Neither patchy nor muddled, quite a feat!
It’s also noteworthy that two thirds of the album is extracted from live performances, with only the opener & “Closer” (which was by no means the closer, missed pan😂) derived fully from studio sessions. The whole comes off as a unit and not two disparate parts, which was another feat we couldn’t ignore.
For our fav on the joint, it had to be “Refuge”. It was on point with the overarching theme of rest & wasn’t overt in how dynamic it aimed to be, save for a whole key change on the tail end of it, which was actually one of its best features.
From an artistic point of view, and by no means related to the material that inspired the project, we were less enthused about the closer, as in “New Thing”. For one, it’s a less-than-neat exit from the album, but there’s also the issue of oh whoa-isms, which admittedly have a lot of people we bet would dig that typa thing in a post-Coldplay landscape. But it was filler-y, if you catch our drift. Cool energy, otherwise.
Overall, this is a mature effort, apt production, suave arrangements and all. We delighted ourselves to several listens and we’re sure we’re not the only ones. Way to go!
