Reviewed by Trevor Kirk

(http://lonandmindycampbell.praiserevolutionrecords.net)

Truly good and authentic Messianic material has always been a scarce commodity, recent offerings by Barry and Batya Segal notwithstanding. I have to go back to Hosanna! Music’s excellent ‘Adonai’ album from 1999, and various live albums from Paul Wilbur, and even further back to Joel Chernoff and Levi Coghill aka Lamb and Helen Shapiro’s excellent 1990 album ‘The Pearl’, to really experience some true Messianic fervour. I had hopes that this would be a drop of good stuff, having seen the Hebrew characters on the sleeve, but I was sorely disappointed. Lon and Mindy Campbell have served up a CD of pretty ordinary fare; stodgy dirge-like material, all the songs sounding the same, mostly in minor keys and with similar chord progressions, and some very dodgy vocal pitching at times.

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