Reviewed by Mike Rimmer

At the start of the 20th century, the Salvation Army took the contemporary pop songs of its day, changed the words and hit the streets to see souls saved. Radical stuff! Judging from this, at the start of the 21st century, they now take a fairly boring selection of almost contemporary Christian praise and worship songs (Kenoly, Kendrick et al) and record them with bland arrangements. Wonder what General Booth would make of all of this! I long for the Salvation Army to rediscover its roots and choose to make music that is relevant, impacting and dynamic but this selection is enough to make me weep at how a once vibrant movement has been reduced to badly recording religious music. If General Booth was around today, there wouldn't be a brass band in sight but rather a church whose worship sounded like Fatboy Slim. What went wrong?

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