Discovery

Description

Discovery is an album by the British contemporary worship band Rivers & Robots fronted by singer/songwriter Jonathan Ogden, independently released in September 2018, under exclusive license to Running Club Records. The album was produced by Dan Stirling and Jonathan Ogden.

Salford’s Rivers & Robots continue their exploration of electronica-tinged indie folk rock worship music with the first album release on the new worship record label based in Brighton, Running Club Records. Having had an excursion into instrumental music, the band are back with 11 worship songs that stand out from the crowd with their mix of electronica and acoustic instrumentation and laid back vocals from singer/songwriter Jonathan Ogden. There is plenty of space in their style for the album to feel coherent but not for every track to sound the same and this is augmented by excellent use of vocal harmonies, especially in the opener «Dreams» and in «Brighter Than The Sun», a beautiful duet with Lucy Grimble. Those who have been following their journey so far will not be at all disappointed and for those who have not yet found these guys, this is a great place to start. [Tim Holden, Cross Rhythms, December 2018]

I’ve come to think of Rivers and Robots as a strange and kind of beautiful experiment – they marry obvious and straightforward worship lyrics with tricky and subtle music that is far too complicated for most church worship bands to play. I’m not sure what they’re trying to prove with this experiment, but I enjoy it.

I have always been far more about the music than the words anyway, which is good, since Rivers and Robots (their name is the juxtaposition of organic and electronic that you hear in their sound) don’t put a huge amount of thought into theirs. Listen to CCM radio for half an hour and you’ll get just about all the phrases this band uses. But the music! I can’t get enough of their music. Their new album Discovery is their most synth-driven, and it contains some of their most complex work.

I can’t get enough of «Overflow», for instance, which is really three movements strung together over six minutes. Yeah, the words are all “your love flows like a river to my soul,” but the melody is just amazing. By the time it gets to the insistent synth bass part that announces the third movement, I’m so in. That kind of thing is all over this album, and even at my most resistant to standard worship music, Rivers and Robots capture me. This is the closest I think I will ever come to enjoying straight-up worship songs, and if that kind of thing doesn’t give you gives, try this band out. [Andre Salles, Tuesday Morning 3 a.m., October 30, 2018]

> iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/album/discovery/1434140802)

CD tracklist:

01. Dreams – 4:44
02. Call Your Name – 4:01
03. Author / Perfector – 4:20
04. Burn for You (feat. David Brymer) – 4:52
05. Satisfy – 3:25
06. Provider – 3:39
07. Overflow – 5:55
08. Brighter Than the Sun (feat. Lucy Grimble) – 3:38
09. Discovery – 3:14
10. My Refuge – 5:53
11. Know You More – 4:56
12. Forevermore – 5:58

Note: Released both on CD and as a Limited Edition 12-inch vinyl double LP.

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