Good News

Description

Good News is an album by the Irish folk-rock worship combo Rend Collective, released by Rend Family Records in January 2018 under exclusive license to Sparrow Records, manufactured, marketed and distributed by Capitol CMG Label Group.

With this gem of an album resting at number one in the UK Christian & Gospel Chart and likely to stay there for months, it’s time for Cross Rhythms to add its plaudits for what is undoubtedly the band’s best album so far. One American reviewer suggested “the songs exude such a titanic force both in their spiritual and vocal intensities they can topple any scaffold of doubt and fear” and I wouldn’t disagree. The same reviewer then went on to suggest that lead singer Chris Llewellyn’s vocals were “a tad draining” yet for me his powerful Celtic passion is a particular draw now that the band have added some intense ballads like «Yahweh» and «Weep For Me» to their repertoire. But fear not. There are plenty of manic romps as well: «I Will Be Undignified» is a foot-stomping celebration delivered at lightning pace complete with a delightful fiddle solo while «Counting Your Blessings» is surely one of their most infectious songs yet as it delivers an important message to focus on the myriad of God’s provisions. Possibly my favourites are «Rescuer» which another American reviewer called “a fantastic pub song for the redeemed, drinking from the well of life,” and «No Outsiders», which, with its bold confrontation, is a song I’d like to play to every Daily Mail reader with the xenophobia and prejudice which are enveloping our world. This family of gospel-espousing road dogs, while leaving room for a song of lamentation or two, have pinpointed just how good the good news of the Gospel is. Many in the world Church will be grateful to them for that. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, March 2018]

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CD tracklist:

01. Life Is Beautiful – 3:42
02. I Will Be Undignified – 3:18
03. Rescuer (Good News) – 3:28
04. Counting Every Blessing – 5:02
05. Nailed To the Cross – 4:05
06. Hymn of the Ages – 4:56
07. True North – 3:02
08. Resurrection Day – 3:43
09. No Outsiders – 4:35
10. Weep With Me – 4:51
11. Weep With Me (Reprise) – 1:05
12. Marching On (feat. Hillsong Young & Free) – 3:39
13. Yahweh – 5:21
14. Counting Every Blessing (Ukulele Session) – 3:55
15. Christ Lives In Me – 4:08

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