Description
Face the Music is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Mylon LeFevre & Broken Heart, released on StarSong Records in April 1988, distributed by Sparrow/StarSong. The album was digitally recorded and mixed by Joe Hardy at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee; with Hardy and Mylon LeFevre producing.
The band features Mylon LeFevre on lead vocals and guitar, Paul Joseph on keyboards and vocals, Scott Allen and Trent Argante on guitar and vocals, Kenneth Bentley on bass and vocals, and Ben Hewitt on digital drums (electronic drums) and vocals.
Mylon & Broken Heart’s debut for Star Song Records rocks with a determination and drive not heard since their 1983 live release, ‘Live Forever‘. Absorbing influences which range from Bruce Hornsby to ZZ Top, ‘Face the Music’ finds the band espousing an updated Southern rock ethic with no apologies, while managing to sidestep the miry pits of “dino-rock.”
Perhaps the greatest (the only?) blessing to be gained form the late Inquisition (Open Season on Christian Rockers, courtesy of You-Know-Who) is that it has led many Christian artists, including Mylon & Broken Heart, to focuse and renew their direction. Broken Heart has gone back to the woodshed and come up with songs that, if anything, rock harder than much of their previous work, while the lyrics throw the ball back to the listener, challenging him to play an active role in spreading the Gospel, instead of sloughing the work off on pastors, “pro” evangelists, or Christian musicians. «Won By One» says, “Day by day, millions are looking for hope/ Inch by inch, they come to the end of their rope/ They’re caught up figthing in their circumstance/ Unless you offer them a chance.”
Standout rockers include «Sixteen Going on Twenty-Five», a song about innocence lost but regained, «Rock of Safety», and the ZZ Top-ish «Change of Heart», with its whipcrack snare and Attack-of-the-10-Foot-Armadillos guitar. «Praise the Lord All the Nations» ripples with lots of Hornsby-esque piano which serves as counterpoint to vivid descriptions of God’s handiwork in nature, especially that kudzu-covered country found south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
The album closes on a reverent note with the praise chorus «Holy is the Lamb», followed by a brief prayer for God’s help in “facing the music” – and our responsibility to spread the Word. As Mylon has said, “Everyone who believes it has a responsibility to share it.” [Mark Eischer, CCM, May 1988]
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LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “Won By Won” – 4:21
A2. “Sixteen” – 3:54
A3. “Talk To Me” – 2:35
A4. “Modern Man” – 3:43
A5. “Mercy Seat” – 3:35
Side Two
B1. “Again And Again” – 4:46
B2. “Change” – 3:01
B3. “Rock Of Safety” – 3:27
B4. “Lamb Of God” – 4:08
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette, 12-inch vinyl LP, and CD by StarSong Records.
The October 1988 issue of CCM Magazine featured a cover story on Mylon LeFevre & Broken Heart.
A full-page advertisement for Mylon LeFevre & Broken Heart’s Face The Music was featured in the April 1988 issue of CCM Magazine.
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