Album Reviews

  • album promo image for Church On the Moon

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, watchgmctv.com

    For the past decade, Deitrick Haddon has been one of the most recognized creative forces in contemporary gospel music. Mixing inspirational messages with great...

  • album promo image for The Legacy Project

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, watchgmctv.com

    “We’ll never appreciate where we’re going if we don’t celebrate what got us here!” Pastor John P. Kee made this declaration on his Facebook page...

  • album promo image for Leaving Eden

    By Lindsay Williams, contributing writer, watchgmctv.com

    Two-time “Male Vocalist of the Year” Brandon Heath presents his career album with Leaving Eden, a collection of radio-ready, beat-...

  • And If Our God Is For Us...

    By Lindsay Williams, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    Chris Tomlin has not only brought integrity and notoriety to modern worship, he's helped define the genre. These immense accomplishments are what make each of...

  • album promo image for A Tribute to the Cathedral Quartet

    By Wendy Lee Nentwig, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    Your earliest exposure to music usually comes at the hand of your parents. For me, that meant my younger years were spent listening to my mom’s cassettes of Simon &...

  • Third Day Move

    By Lindsay Williams, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    Third Day’s last studio release, Revelation (Essential), was regarded as such a return to form that the Atlanta-based foursome was going to be hard pressed to top its...

  • Hillsong Chapel, Yahweh

    By Wendy Lee Nentwig, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    Hillsong has become much more than a church, it’s a worship brand that’s known around the world. So the latest endeavor from the Australian mega-...

  • Tye Tribbett Fresh

    By E.J. Gaines, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    With his newest album, Fresh, Tye Tribbett hopes to demonstrate that God is doing a new thing. Indeed, we can see that with Tribbett, himself – it is the first album since...

  • The Shelter

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    The title of the latest offering from Jars of Clay, Jars of Clay Presents The Shelter, was inspired by an old Irish Proverb: “It is in the shelter of each other that the...

  • album promo image for Outta Space Love

    By Lindsay Williams, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    It’s too bad Group 1 Crew couldn’t have released its new album, Outta Space Love, earlier in the year because it would have made the perfect summer...

  • album promo image for Our Journey... So Far

    By Lindsay Williams, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    While it seems a bit premature to release a “best of” project, BarlowGirl’s Our Journey...So Far does a nice job of chronicling the sisters...

  • album promo image for Love Revolution

    By Lindsay Williams, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    Live, Natalie Grant is a force to be reckoned with. The powerful vocalist boasts chops most people only dream about. Her latest effort, Love Revolution,...

  • album promo image for We Cry Out: The Worship Project

    By Lindsay Williams, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    Worship projects are a dime a dozen in Christian music. Oftentimes, when a big-name artist releases a worship album, it seems like it’s just an attempt to capitalize...

  • album promo image for The Edge of the Divine

    By Lindsay Williams, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    She is the most awarded female vocalist in Christian music, and after over 30 years in the music business, since her first days of touring with Bill and Gloria Gaither,...

  • album promo image for Defender

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    Late last year, gmclife.com named worship artist Chris McClarney one of its Top 10 Artists to Watch in 2010, and with the release of his first full-length studio CD, ...

  • album promo image for Counting Stars

    By Jenny Bennett, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    It's hard not to notice when an artist makes honest music. Whatever you may like or dislike, you can't help but be drawn to the nature of the expression.

    Andrew Peterson's...

  • album promo image for The Medicine

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    Integrity Music's newest artist is southern-bred, folk rock-and-roller John Mark McMillan, who recently released his label debut, The Medicine. I have to admit that...

  • album promo image for Live at the Ryman

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    While still in his teens in the mid 1990s, Jonny Lang exploded onto the national scene with a combination of highly developed blues guitar chops and a powerful voice that...

  • album promo image for We Walk This Road

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    Some albums that come along are real treats, both musically and historically. It's rare, but when it happens, you don't want to miss it. We Walk This Road, the...

  • album promo image for Born Again

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, gmclife.com

    When the news began to circulate last year that longtime Newsboys frontman Peter Furler would be exiting the group, and that his replacement would be none other than former...