Spiritn3D - Surrender

Published Thursday 6th February 2014
Spiritn3D - Surrender
Spiritn3D - Surrender

STYLE: Rock
RATING 3 3 3
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 146784-21416
LABEL: Independent
FORMAT: CD Album
ITEMS: 1
RELEASE DATE: 2013-09-01

Reviewed by Matthew Cordle

The name SpiritN3D has its roots both in the fact that the three original members' names all began with the letter D and that the Spirit of God is revealed as the Trinity. They classify their style as "classic Christian rock" and seek to convey the message of God through faith, hope and love. Dan Leone states that this fifth CD calls the listener to surrender to God, to be obedient to his ways and then see how life starts working for you rather than against you. However, it's hard to get as far as the message as there are two things that seriously spoil this CD right from the beginning and all the way to the end; firstly the raw, natural-sounding drums of the earlier 'He's Real' album have been replaced by naff-sounding, rigid drum machine patterns that feature far too many '80s-style toms fills on almost every track. Secondly the lead guitar player, Samuel Castilla, sounds like he's having a whale of a time playing an extravaganza of lead guitar solos throughout most of the songs. Given that the guitar has been mixed really forward in the mix, the result almost sounds like a lead guitar album with textural vocal accompaniment! Adding to this the intermittent timing problems (eg, the intro to "Release Me", which just sounds sloppy) and the fact that almost every song sounds the same, it's hard to find much with which to recommend the CD.

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Reader Comments

Posted by Debra Leone in Us @ 11:39 on Feb 7 2014

I loved the Surrender Cd! I know that Im not looking at it from a professional point. But I look at it by the fruit. How people change by listening to it and by what good has come from it. In Dubai there are no Christian music stores. If you don't have the Internet it's almost impossible to get Christian music. So it's a great gift to be able to have the CDs available in a Muslim country. I'm not saying that your review is invalid. Criticism can be a good thing sometimes...But what I am saying is that as a Christian music review venue, I think that you should be choosing your words wisely so that they build up Christ's kingdom and not tear down. So I guess you must ask yourself what will be the fruit of your review. To build up on tear down... only you can answer that question.



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