Kingdom Focus
Posted August 10, 2009
By IronJedi,
Matt Papa’s first album with the Centricity Label, and second full-length project, hits the ground running, picking up where his previous effort, You Are Good left off. Your Kingdom Come is an authentic, stimulating and direct album of modern praise and worship demonstrating a seasoning that goes beyond Papa’s actual 25 years.
Your Kingdom Come is a collection of intelligently written, thoughtful, hook-laden music, in the vein of predecessors David Crowder, Rich Mullins and Matt Redman. Much like fellow prophetic minstrel Derek Webb, Papa pulls no punches with regards to his lyrics. Every track is fully capable of engaging the listeners’ whole heart and mind, as well as their hands and feet. His melding of ancient cannon & simple, sound theology with modern pop/rock is fresh, appealing and ear-catching.
Papa continues to demonstrate a mastery of musical continuity by nimbly connecting diverse genres of influence into an organic whole. While the majority of the albums’ whopping 18 tracks lean toward high-energy rock reinforcing God-focused anthems, interspersed throughout are several deeply revealing acoustic tracks and quirky vignettes that give us a glimpse of the multi-faceted (Godly) man behind the music.
Fans of the above modern worship luminaries, as well as Fee, Charlie Hall, Jason Morant and Matthew West will also find common ground in Papa’s work.
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