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Recorded live at the North Coast Calvary Chapel in Carlsbad, California,
this album includes 12 new songs of worship. Leading, are Brent
Helming, Jan L'Ecuyer, and Dan Whiteman, and they get things underway
with the driving "Holy Is the Lord". It's very much
a guitar led band and there's a certain U2 feel about both this
song and the following "Jesus Lead On". Enter to the
frame, Jan L'Ecuyer, who takes over the vocals on "I Will
Lift My Hands". On this, as well as later songs like"You
Shelter Me" and "I Love Your Ways", she sounds
extraordinarily like Sixpence's Leigh Nash that it's hard to tell
them apart. Sadly, in between, there's some rather messy sounds
that come over as all too ordinary. "I Love Loving You"
is one example where the guitar work fails to live up to it's
previous high standards and the whole song falls into complete
disarray. Really, it's an album of two halves. The first is quite
promising, on the whole, while the second just fades into oblivion,
with song after song becoming very much alike. A pity really,
because there are some great songs. 5/10. (March 2001)
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