The boys light up...
Posted July 09, 2010
By gooseman00,
Finally, with the latest reincarnation of the award winning and ever changing Newsboys has offered up their most complete album since 1996's 'Take me to your leader' graced the charts.
With the Departure of the long time front man Peter Furler it gave the band the chance to really find itself and rediscover the sound that is going to drive them to the next part of the bands amazing journey. The problem would have been who has a personality big enough to fill the shoes of someone like Peter... and the answer is long time Newsboy friend and Christian music pioneer Michael Tait (formerly DC Talk/Tait)... to be honest when I heard this was going to be the new lead singer I was thinking that it was only a gimmick and would be short lived... I have to admit, I was wrong - it turns out that this was a stroke of genius. Taits voice has meant that the NB's have been able to bring an album that takes in all aspects of the rock spectrum... when it's not rockin' it has a nice pop feel, when it's not poppin' it's dancing... it really is very very well done and at no point are you thinking that this isn't how NB's should be? It just feels right!
NB's have added more Australian influence to this album than we have heard for a while with a cover of Aussie Worshippers Hillsong's 'Mighty to save' and 'the boys light up' is heavily influence by Aussie band Australian Crawl with NB's taking the main chorus of the Aussie crawl song 'boys light up' to flavor their own song.
How else could the blend of the two biggest Christian rock groups of the past two decades end... with DC Talks 'Jesus Freak' of course (with KJ-52 adding the rap flavours)... and it sounds good.
So this album is the best of Newsboys and DC Talk past and present... and it certainly looks good for NB's future.
This album really does show just how well the NB's really do light up... and SHINE! View All Music And Book Reviews By gooseman00 | View gooseman00's Profile
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