Stephen John - Children Of The Sacred Heart

Thursday 1st February 1996
Stephen John - Children Of The Sacred Heart

STYLE: Pop
RATING 3 3 3
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 18441-CAS2875
LABEL: Independent
FORMAT: Cassette Album

Reviewed by Tony Cummings

Coming from the Catholic tradition of the church, this is a demo of such low-fi, just Stephen's vocals, keyboards and bits of harmonies, that listening is extremely difficult. Stephen writes melodic devotional songs, but with a similarity of tempo and key on many of the numbers and plenty of wobbles in the voice it's impossible to recommend. The Middle Eastern sounding "Om Nama Jesu" and "Jesus Is The Lord" raise interest momentarily and almost remind me of Secret Archives Of The Vatican. But even here the poor sound quality drags it down.

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