Description
Chain Breaker is a full-length album by the American singer and songwriter Zach Williams, released on Provident Label Group’s Essential Records in December 2016, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. A Deluxe Edition featuring several bonus tracks was released in September 2017.
After an unprecedented 50 weeks at number one on Billboard’s Top Christian Songs chart it’s hardly surprising that reviewers have been suggesting that it has become “the anthem of countless Christians.” Like another song that could make that claim, Hillsong United’s «Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)», «Chain Breaker» is a primal call to the Lord of all. For months Christian radio listeners have been demanding a full album and now that it is with us it clearly shows that Williams is no one-trick-pony. On the hugely catchy «Old Church Choir» he makes a convincing stab at retro rockabilly while the powerful lyricist that Williams is comes through on «Fear Is A Liar» which colourfully reminds us how Satan uses fear to keep us from the path of faith. Zach is, of course, no novice. He has travelled with various bands playing different styles of rock music before settling as a worship leader in Jonesboro, Arkansas. With his gritty voice, which one reviewer suggested is a cross between Bryan Adams and Johnny Cash (if you can imagine such a thing), the songsmith’s power ballads «Revival» and «Survivor» are both convincing while the acoustic closer «So Good To Me» is prayerful and moving. Okay, so there isn’t another song of the calibre of «Chain Breaker» here but this is still a top rate album. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, January 2017]
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CD tracklist:
01. Chain Breaker – 3:16
02. Old Church Choir – 2:56
03. Survivor – 3:52
04. To the Table – 4:00
05. My Liberty – 3:03
06. Song of Deliverance – 3:28
07. Fear Is a Liar – 4:25
08. Everything Changed – 3:22
09. Revival – 3:24
10. So Good to Me – 5:02
Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks:
11. Promised Land – 1:35
12. Home – 3:38
13. Midnight Rider – 3:59
14. Freedom – 3:14
15. Washed Clean (Live) – 5:34
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