Style: Pop Rating: Cross Rhythms Product Code: 23369 Product Format: CD Catalogue Code: Independent 8204362 Content Type: Album Items: 1 Extras: DVD Release Date:
30 May 2007 Normal Dispatch Time:1-3 days Price:£9.97RRP £12.99
The latest live worship release from Abundant Life is as slick a production as you would expect from the Bradford-based mega church. Containing 12 brand new songs composed wholly from writers on the church's books (namely Jonathan James, Matt Hooper, Mike Harvie, Lara Martin and Mark Stevens), this is a strong and vibrant collection that stands up well against the wealth of worship material out there today. The underpinning aim of this release is to stir people into willing service for God and this theme is featured most prominently in youth pastor Jonathan James' title track. Supported by a talented and tight band, this is high octane stuff and the pace of songs such as the crowd pleasing opener "Take All The Glory" and Mike Harvie's "You Sent Your Own" only let up momentarily for more contemplative numbers like the meditative "Messiah" before letting rip again with the impressivly heavy "To Know You". This release also includes a DVD disc which contains a no frills document of the performance of the self same recording featured on the audio disc. The second disc contains some worthy extras - a video diary of their South African tour and a stirring exposition by senior pastor Paul Scanlon.
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Posted by Josh Lockhart in ALC Belfast at 10:50 on May 5 2007
Absolutely Fantastic, every song is a classic! Album is very
well presented and DVD quality is top notch! Best Christian
album this year! Better than the new Hillsong Album!!!
Am I just being cynical, or is Josh in Belfast guilty of
cronyism by praising the new ALC album to the skies? I'll
wait for the review - ratings of 6, 7 and 8 in the past show
that their old stuff was good but not that good ..........
Posted by adam in yorkshire at 09:30 on May 23 2007
This is a really good album. The songs are a lot more
developed than previous albums, the melodies really stand
out and there are lots of songs that stick in your head.
Posted by Oscar in Steeton, W. Yorks. at 17:58 on Jun 1 2007
I haven't got the CD yet, but I was front-and-centre at the
recording, and I helped to record the choir overdubs, so
here are my thoughts on the album: "To Know You" (one of the
best guitar riffs ever), "Fire" (wonderfully
Radioheadesque), "Breathe in Me", "Messiah" (a brilliantly
simple-but-extraordinarily-arranged song; the drums, in
particular, are fantastic), "Send Me", and "Closer" (best
song on the album) are the standouts. There are a few songs
that I find not quite up to par ("Take All the Glory", "Name
Above All Names", "Reach to You"), but otherwise, this is
the best Abundant Life album since "God is Here", if not
ever. I can't wait for the new RPM album... :-)
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Absolutely Fantastic, every song is a classic! Album is very well presented and DVD quality is top notch! Best Christian album this year! Better than the new Hillsong Album!!!