Album Reviews

  • album promo image for Until the Whole World Hears

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    In the six years since Casting Crowns released their self-titled debut, the group has raked in 23 Dove Awards, eight chart-topping radio singles, a GRAMMY Award...

  • album promo image for Memento Mori

    By Jenny Bennett, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Every once in awhile, an artist's success can't be defined by a platinum-selling album, sold-out tour dates and radio play alone - an occurrence that's even...

  • album promo image for Hello Hurricane

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    It's been almost three years since San Diego rockers Switchfoot released their last studio album, Oh! Gravity. Much has transpired during that time,...

  • album promo image for Beauty Will Rise

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Steven Curtis Chapman has spent the past 20 years churning out songs that have become nothing less than a soundtrack of life for Christians everywhere. But it is...

  • album promo image for Free

    By Monica Watkins, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Free is the third offering from RiZen. The original four-member group is now a duo, but sisters and founding members Adriann and Aundrea...

  • album promo image for Faithful to Believe

    By Monica Watkins, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Detroit, known to all as an historic breeding ground for great music, was the perfect setting for the recording of Byron Cage's latest release, Faithful to...

  • album promo image for Self-titled

    By Monica Watkins, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Aaron Sledge emerges from behind the scenes with his self-titled debut release on EMI Gospel. Think Ruben Studdard or Dave Hollister.

    The single, "Hold...

  • album promo image for It Is Well

    By Lou Carlozo, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    I wanted very much to love It Is Well, the second praise and worship album by Kutless (following 2005's Strong Tower). But what I heard was hard...

  • album promo image for Forget and Not Slow Down

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Matt Thiessen should be banished to an isolated cabin in the woods more often if the resulting musical fare is anything like what he's crafted on Relient K's...

  • album promo image for The Experience

    By Monica Watkins, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Gospel music veteran Vanessa Bell Armstrong returns to the stage with The Experience. Recorded live in Chicago, famed industry producer Donald...

  • album promo image for Hope Rising

    By Andrew Robison, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    There are few artists flowing through the airwaves today who successfully rock out and praise God at the same time, better than the band Fee. Ever since their...

  • album promo image for Still

    By Jenny Bennett, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    BeBe and CeCe Winans are each at their best when they're together. With all they've accomplished individually in the 15 years since they last recorded together...

  • album promo image for Love Unstoppable

    By Monica Watkins, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Fred Hammond has one of the most recognized voices in Gospel music today. Three years after the release of his GRAMMY Award-winning project Free to Worship...

  • album promo image for Welcome to the Masquerade

    By Lou Carlozo, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Though Thousand Foot Krutch may be a trio, on Welcome to the Masquerade, they deftly juggle a quartet of genres: metal, pop, rap and post-grunge. While...

  • album promo image for Reunited

    By Vernell Hackett, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    When a group of fine actors comes together for a movie, fans flock to buy tickets. The Gaither Vocal Band's Reunited creates the same excitement.

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  • album promo image for Love & War

    By Debra Akins, contributing writer, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Since the release of their self-titled debut in 2004, BarlowGirl's Rebecca, Alyssa and Lauren Barlow haven't shied away from bold proclamations of faith. And their...

  • album promo image for You Deliver Me

    By Debra Akins for GospelMusicChannel.com

    You Deliver Me, the seventh recording from Dove Award-winning trio Selah took more than three years to land, and as a result is one of the group's most personal projects...

  • album promo image for The Outsiders

    By Melissa Riddle, senior content strategist, GospelMusicChannel.com

    I've seen it once or twice. That magical moment when a bud bursts into bloom or when a toddler discovers she can run - when something really good already...

  • album promo image for Awake

    By Debra Akins, contributing editor, GospelMusicChannel.com

    Hard to believe it's been 13 years since Skillet first appeared on the Christian rock radar, but longevity has proved to be this band's friend in a very big way....

  • album promo image for Just James

    By Monica Watkins for GospelMusicChannel.com

    J. Moss sheds industry titles and accolades as he extends an invitation into the heart of the man behind the music, with his appropriately titled new release Just James...