Just about any church band can stand up in front of its congregation and play The Twelve Sacred Songs of praise and worship (you know them all by heart), but it really takes imagination to be innovative, different, and appealing in worship. There are indeed local and regional bands who are truly imaginative. Here's another: Goodbye Audio from Bloomington, Illinois. Self-produced and engineered and not at all sounding "home grown" or amateurish, it may be easy to detect some major and minor influences that the four-person band utilizes for Run to You, including (in no particular order) Fleming and John, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Jimmy Cliff, Sixpence None the Richer, Everybodyduck, Waterdeep, Viva Voce, Plumb, and of course, elements of current Vineyard and Maranatha! offerings (and the "hidden track" on CD projects isn't over yet!). Despite the possible plethora of styles offered by Goodbye Audio, this band really does have musical glue: an acoustic/electric basis as the underlying foundation for truly excellent lyrics. Apart from a couple of unusual change-of-pace tempo gear shifts, the flow of Run to You as a recording performance is actually quite smooth. For the most part, where the music appears frenetic, the lyrics follow suit, as in the straight-ahead-rock "Lift My Voice" (a group-written song); acoustic just can't work for "I can't be quiet any more / Living savior I am yours / We belong to you now / Jesus come and fill this place." Makes sense to me! All the music and lyrics are original, and there are moments here that are beautiful, worshipful, thrilling -- and most of all, imaginative and very intriguing.
3.5 tocks
Other coverage for this album
Art for the Ears 2003Reviewed by Marco PovervestThe promo that I received from this American band, is a burned copy. That's not something new to me, but the omission of song titles is. There are twelve tracks on their album and I have no idea how they're called! Let's describe their music then. Goodbye Audio are a melodic rock band with Christian worship themes plastered all over. It's smooth sounding rock music with gentle, clean singing from…The Phantom Tollbooth 2003Reviewed by Curt McLeyYou want to refer to Goodbye Audio's collection Run to You as "modern worship"? Fine. Though the phrase "worship music" is as varied as the demographic and psychographic profile of the bands performing it, in this case, the parlance fits. Members Chris Shandrow, Lewis Lux, Stacey Lux, and Jimmy Wise have traded the restrictive shackles of record company contracts for an open-minded, eclectic,…
