| Product Summary | | Label: Chordant Music Group | | UPC: 00724385184628 | | Release Date: 3/26/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 60542993 | | Item#: MGLTQG | Format:  CD |
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(C) Sparrow
| As music buyers increasingly turn to music of faith, encouragement, relevance, conviction and hope Newsboys have once again moved to the head of the class. The multi-million selling group has spent the last fourteen years developing a massive and devoted following, honing their skills as pop craftsmen and working hard at becoming one of the best bands going. Resisting trends and avoiding comparisons, the band developed its own slick yet imaginative sound and charted their own course to the top. Between a breakthrough "hits" compilation, their most successful tour to date and adding another three number one singles to their impressive list, 2001 was a good year for Phil Joel, Jeff Frankenstein, Duncan Phillips, Jody Davis and Peter Furler. Yet somehow in the midst of all that, Newsboys have managed to create their most powerful album to date. With thought-provoking and challenging lyrics set to driving and compelling music, the world will now hear Newsboys' Thrive. Musically, Thrive offers everything fans have come to expect of Newsboys, with a little extra. While several tracks sport ragged guitar tracks and hooks reminiscent of the great guitar rock of the seventies, others take Furler's innate melodic sensibilities to new heights. "Million Pieces" is destined to be another hit on radio, while "Cornelius", in Furler's estimation, "will probably be huge with the punters (fans). I have a feeling we'll be haunted by that one, kind of like "Breakfast" for years to come. With mixing by Tom Lord-Alge (Blink 182, Collective Soul, INXS, Dave Matthews Band) and mastering by Bob Ludwig (Bowie, Creed, Foo Fighters,) the production brings those melodies and tones through with amazing clarity.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Phil Joel (vocals, guitar, bass); Peter Furler (vocals, guitar, drums); Jody Davis (vocals, guitar); Jeff Frankenstein (keyboards, programming); Duncan Phillips (drums, percussion). | | Additional personnel includes: Jeff Coffin (baritone saxophone); Dan Rudin (congas, vocoder, percussion); Eric Darken (drums, percussion). | | Producers: Steve Taylor, Peter Furler, Joe Baldridge. | | Engineers: Joe Baldridge, Dan Rudin, Russ Long. | | Recorded at Bridge Street Studios, Dark Horse Studios, Sound Kitchen Studio, Franklin, Tennessee, Ocean Way Studios and Whistler's Music, Nashville, Tennessee. | | More than just a Christian boy band, the Newsboys bring some much-needed raunch into the hitherto squeaky-clean world of Christian rock with a belated follow up to 1999's LOVE LIBERTY DISCO. Perhaps such irreverence emanates from the antipodean background of four-fifths of the band's personnel, but this refreshing collection of ballsy Christian pop (a phrase you probably never dreamed you'd be reading) flies in the face of the po'-faced religious idealism that's usually a staple of the genre. | | "Live in Stereo" is almost glam rock in the style of '70s British popsters Sweet, and the infernally catchy album opener "Giving It Over" further mines the band's rich Britpop seam. There's a brief hiatus while the band go all U2-like on "It Is You," but it's soon back to the main business of rowdy religiosity, via the massive pop onslaught of "Cornelius" and the driving old-school R&B of "The Fad of the Land." THRIVE is a welcome comeback for this innovative and energetic band who prove here that Christian rock doesn't have to be a contradiction in terms. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/26/2002 | | Original Release Date : 2002 | | Catalog ID : 51846 | | Label : Sparrow Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00724385184628 |
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