Reviewed by Andy Cooper

From the first bar you can tell this is going to be a quality set. Production is big and bold: just like Anita's voice! She comes from Chicago's Donald Lawrence & Company and this is her first solo project. It surely won't be her last and has already received a Grammy nomination. Her backing band and choir are virtually on fire and create a passionate wall of sound that few soloists would have a chance of peeking over. But Anita has that Aretha Franklin type of voice than will bulldoze a way through even Jericho's defences! She has body, depth, strength, tone, stability, confidence, emotion and devotion. And every song is simply and truthfully pointing to Jesus the Lord. "Its All About You" is a huge sounding highlight, followed by the more intimate and soulful "Speechless". "Jesus Will" gets funky while "Keep On Praisin'" goes jazzy and "More" is heart-on-sleeve honesty. New musical styles are not really explored, but what already exists is virtually perfected and presented in a massively uplifting manner.

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With her debut project, Anita Wilson joins the rich musical heritage known as the Chicago sound, while simultaneously heralding a new style in today's gospel music - Worship Soul. A worship leader and featured vocalist in the award-winning ensemble Donald Lawrence & Company, she boldly takes the solo stage with an album that is at once fiery and soulful, dynamic and meditative.

From the high-church energy of It's Done and He Shows Out, to the passionate reflection of Speechless and Perfect Love Song, the striking, 11-song collection is evidence not merely of a great new talent, but of a seasoned minister.