Late Late Service - Music From The Late Late Service 4: God in The Flesh

Wednesday 1st February 1995
Late Late Service - Music From The Late Late Service 4: God in The Flesh
Late Late Service - Music From The Late Late Service 4: God in The Flesh

STYLE: Dance/Electronic
RATING 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 5399-5132
LABEL: Sticky Music GUMCD27
FORMAT: CD Album
ITEMS: 1

Reviewed by Tony Cummings

Glasgow's Andy Thornton is still on the cutting edge in pushing back the parameters of worship music. This is now the 4th volume of Late Late Service songs and still the studio maestro is ringing the changes. I really liked the haunting "Author Of Creation" with memorable lyrics ("We long for something tangible/A glimpse of the invisible") over a shuffling rhythm and an eery male vocal. Not all the tracks sustain interest. "Image Of The Invisible", despite some monologues by a lass in a thick Glaswegian accent, is let down by a dull harmony vocal and plodding rhythm. But at its best like "I Saw Heaven Opened" with a seriously building track The Late Service is keeping up their steady supply of radical worship alternatives.

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Reader Comments

Posted by Tony Hutt in Debenham, Suffolk, UK @ 11:55 on Dec 27 2019

Every year around Christmas I play this CD, usually because I've had enough of hearing and singing endless Christmas Carols during Advent, including some full of nonsense and bad theology, and too much "seasonal music". Then after listening to the CD my faith is somewhat restored. Sadly it's the only CD of LLS that I have, and must have bought at the Greenbelt Festival where they were. I thought it very strange at the time, but now I wish I had the other CDs, because there's nothing quite like it.



Posted by Dennis Brice in Philadelphia @ 23:41 on Jul 6 2007

This must be one of the greatest "pre post modern awareness" albums ever. Far from being dull and plodding "Image of the Invisible" bears reading and listening too countless times and perfectly fits the angst that "O Come" brings out of what must have been the original cry of the words as opposed to contemporary "Sweetness". Ten years out I still find this album's creativity speaks to culture. It is worth finding... Does anyone have access to a video tape of some of this?



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