The Lost Get Found by Britt Nicole

Reviewed by Simon Eden

This is pop nearing perfection. Remarkably, every track on this, Britt's second album, has the potential to become a US/UK mainstream number one hit with sufficient airplay. That success is beginning to show with the album and the title track single both hitting number one on the US Christian charts. With slightly breathy, sultry, intimate verses balanced with powerful choruses, each song radiates such positivity that you wonder how they managed to get the rainbows and sunshine packaged in. Track five sums it up as "Love's coming through your headphones". The prolific use of the non-lyrical vocals such as "Hey, hey, oh, oh" are a peculiar highlight as they scan well into the bouncy melody lines, and are well positioned to fit into the rhyming scheme; ie, "Oh, oh", "we ain't getting caught in the undertow", "dance everywhere we go" and "turn the lights down so we can glow, glow". Musically targeted at excitable teenage girls, the Christian aspect is brilliantly natural and portrays God as a normal integrated part of any teenager's life without dumbing down or hyped worship and is a major credit to Britt's songwriting. As a pop album it fits into a mainstream genre and consequently sounds similar to singers like Avril Lavigne, which is no bad thing.