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Track Listing
1. Come Alive
2. Open Heavens
3. Beautiful Ending
4. Stay With Me
5. Our Worlds Collide
6. Love is Marching
7. Running Out of Time
8. Time for You to Go
9. Sing Me a Love Song
10. Tears Fall
11. Hello Sunshine
| Details | | Producer: | Otto Price | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Rebecca Barlow (vocals, guitar); Alyssa Barlow (vocals, keyboards); Lauren Barlow (vocals, drums); Otto Price (guitar, synthesizer, programming); John Painter (electric guitar, woodwinds, horns); Otto Price III, Barry Graul (electric guitar); David Davidson, David Angell (violin); Kristin Wilkinson (viola); John Catchings (cello); David Das (programming).
Audio Mixer: Ainslie Grosser .
Recording information: The Sound Labs, Brentwood, TN.
Over the course of several hit albums, Christian girl group Barlowgirl established itself as a successful crossover act by mastering a variety of secular pop and rock styles and matching them to inspirational (but not always explicitly religious) lyrics. Often sounding like a radio-ready mix of Avril Lavigne, Evanescence, and Vanessa Carlton, the trio appealed to an unusually wide variety of music fans. LOVE & WAR finds the Illinois-based trio expanding its sound even further, incorporating influences of heavy rock and dance music. The opening track "Come Alive" is driven by a straight-up disco beat, a driving bass line, and Killers-esque edgy guitars, while "Time For You To Go" finds the singers' smooth vocal harmonies and biting anti-mass media social commentary backed by a nu-metal-ish funky beat and thrashy drumming. "Hello Sunshine" is a horse of a different, bright, color, its jaunty piano, joyful melody, fuzzy lead guitar, and Bach trumpet blasts clearly influenced by Paul McCartney-authored songs from the Beatles' WHITE ALBUM era. A diverse, engaging exercise in several different subgenres of Christian music, LOVE & WAR appeals to both the CCM heart and the pop sweet tooth.
Industry Reviews
The lead single, 'Beautiful Ending,' is a gorgeous anthem with a sweetly soaring melody and thought-provoking lyrics.
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