2 out of 5

Label: Sounds Familyre (re-release)

Producer: Bill Day

Whoosh, what a mess.  This is straight, lo-fi, singin’ Bible Soul-Junk.  The initial straight-forward badump-badump Soul-Junk beat works for a couple tracks, and Glen Galaxy truly sounds energized and passionate when singing a lot of this, but it is absolutely the most musically repetitive of all the SJ albums, building around the same strummy guitar style and simple drum beat.  And because it’s just sort of a monotone concept of praising god, even those energetic vocals start to wane on.  It’s not horrible – song by song it’s listenable, even enjoyable – but one sitting of this is not an ideal experience, and this works better as an informative of how SJ’s sound (and Galaxy’s exploration of this concept) has grown and expanded than as something you crave to listen to.