Album Reviews

  • album promo image for Self-titled

    By Melissa Riddle, Senior Editorial Strategist, GospelMusicChannel.com

    It's pretty rare these days in Christian music to find a woman anywhere near the charts (note to self: step down off the soapbox, this is an album...

  • album promo image for Dance or Die

    By Jenny Bennett, Content Coordinator, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Call me crazy, but I've never been a huge '80s music buff. I'm always a little skeptical of music that makes me laugh. I know; too serious for my own good. But I...

  • album promo image for Not Without Love

    By Melissa Riddle, Senior Editorial Strategist, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Guys who fish love to talk all the time about "the one that got away," but it took a guy like Jimmy Needham to make that myth ring near true. This Texas...

  • album promo image for Satisfied

    By Beau Black for GospelMusicChannel.com

    "Classic rock" band DecembeRadio sounds a little less classic, a little less rock on their second album, Satisfied. Perhaps shooting for a broader audience this outing, the...

  • album promo image for What If We

    By Jenny Bennett for GospelMusicChannel.com

    What makes singer/songwriter Brandon Heath easy to relate to is the relevancy of the stories he tells and the way he chooses to tell them. The success of "I'm Not Who I Was" (...

  • album promo image for Free

    By Monica P. Watkins for GospelMusicChannel.com

    Freedom has a sound, hence the phrase, "let freedom ring." Darwin Hobbs' fifth studio release, Free, captures this sound in 12 tracks, ringing out in one of the most...

  • Revelation

    By Debra Akins for GospelMusicChannel.com

    There could not have been a better way for Third Day to kick off their new album Revelation than with a track titled "This Is Who I Am." A great southern-rock anthem, it...

  • album promo image for A Dream to Believe In Vol. II

    By Melissa Riddle for GospelMusicChannel.com

    If you span the whole of Christian and gospel music, you'd be hard-pressed to find an artist with more energy and passion than Nicole C. Mullen. Her music, like her personal...

  • album promo image for What Life Would Be Like

    By Melissa Riddle for GospelMusicChannel.com

    For almost 10 years now, Big Daddy Weave has made a name for itself as a consistently good worship band. Great guys with great big hearts who make the music they make for all...

  • album promo image for No Looking Back

    By Monica P. Watkins for GospelMusicChannel.com

    On July 22, Damita Haddon makes a long-awaited return with her sophomore release No Looking Back. After seven long years since her debut on Atlantic records, No...

  • album promo image for Total Attention

    By Jenny Bennett for GospelMusicChannel.com

    Isn't it refreshing when a young group emerges whose influences are clear, yet the result is something totally different than anything you've heard?

    The gospel trio 21:03 -...

  • album promo image for Stronger

    By Jenny Bennett, Digital Content Coordinator

    Speaking of a sweet female voice, there's no question the adjective describes the voice and spirit of Tammy Trent. Losing her husband in a diving accident in 2001, Trent's...

  • album promo image for My Paper Heart

    By Jenny Bennett, Digital Content Coordinator

    Calling this promising newcomer the Colbie Caillat or the Sara Bareilles of Christian music would make sense, but it wouldn't completely describe what Francesca Battistelli...

  • album promo image for This Is An Outrage

    By Jenny Bennett, Digital Content Coordinator

    With an iPod full of great releases this summer in Gospel...

  • album promo image for On The Blue

    By Jenny Bennett, Digital Content Coordinator

    With an iPod full of great releases this summer in Gospel...

  • album promo image for Lead Me On: 20th Anniversary Edition

    By Jenny Bennett for GospelMusicChannel.com

    With an iPod full of great releases this summer in Gospel...

  • album promo image for Rock What You Got

    By Jenny Bennett, Digital Content Coordinator

    With an iPod full of great releases this summer in Gospel...

  • album promo image for To Know That You're Alive

    By Jenny Bennett, Digital Content Coordinator

    With an iPod full of great releases this summer in Gospel...

  • album promo image for Alive and Transported

    by Jenny Bennett

    No one else in Christian music possesses a style that morphs, in a matter of minutes, from rap to rock to pop and back again, quite like tobyMac. Props to his band DiverseCity for making this phenomenon a...

  • album promo image for Reflections

    by Monica P. Watkins

    Reflections is the debut project from one of EMI Gospel's newest artists, Jason Champion. If the name rings a bell it's because Champion is no stranger to the music scene. Discovered by the...