Yazz - Running Back To You

Posted by Alan M in London at 22:30 on Feb 8 2008

This is quite the warmest and most beautiful worship record I have ever heard. The songs and production are exquisite. Buy it now - and copies for your friends and church - you will not be disappointed. This CD has the cross-over appeal (pop/soul/R&B) to bring worship music and the love of Jesus back into the mainstream where they belong. I truly cannot recommend this album highly enough ...

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Posted by Bob Wood in Taunton at 22:49 on Apr 30 2008

"So Glad" could be a mainstream chart hit easily, if only it were picked up by a major radio station. Just excellent and worth every one of it's 10/10.

Posted by Darren in Notts, United Kingdom at 02:15 on May 25 2008

Yazz applies herself and produces a wonderful 13 track album with the same talent that rocketed her to fame with the 1988 ‘Wanted’ album, birthing the subsequent 6 week No1 hit and biggest selling UK single of the year ‘The only way is up’- and surely it must be….The opening track ‘Freedom’ is a catchy Latino carnival testimonial proclaiming Yazz’s freedom in Christ, utilising the piano skills from husband Enrique, a wonderfully fresh sound that leads on to the albums second track ‘Love Creation’, a soft melodic approach to Genesis one, blending superbly with ‘You are my daily bread’- I recall melting in worship the first time I heard this Marie Barnett composition - Yazz delivers this song with a slightly more upbeat tempo but to the same effect!
On to the astoundingly intimate and soulful ‘Deeper Love’…… an impassioned song that sings right to your core, truly moving.
The album title track ‘Running back to you’ conveys brilliantly the urgency felt when a person recognises their need to get into relationship with God, whilst the acoustic ‘Strength to carry on’ is a reminder of who we rely on in times of adversity .The respectful and sweet soul sound from ‘You are Holy’ precedes ‘Jerusalem’- an excellent example and expression of Yazz’s song writing talent and fantastic vocal range. The joyful Africa beat emanating from ‘Joy in the morning’ brings on a foot tapping frenzy, before we’re reminded of “for out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks” or in this case as Yazz sings ‘My Heart Speaks’, a reflection on the signs of the times- a great prelude to ‘So Glad’, a celebration of Yazz’s position and relationship with God.
The peaceful and mellifluous ballad with daughter Rio in ‘Look To Me’ infuses a wonderful harmony you can expect from a talented mother and daughter duo, Rio features through much of the album with blended harmonies, and it’s with harmony that the album finishes, ‘Amazing Grace’, how sweet the sound….Amen.

Darren Mangold