Music Review: Me In Motion
Posted March 23, 2010
By ChristianManifesto,
By Kyle Kiekintveld & Thomas Jenkins
GENRE: ALTERNATIVE ROCK
LABEL: CENTRICITY MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 23, 2010
KYLE KIEKINTVELD’S RATING: 4 OUT OF 5
THOMAS JENKINS’ RATING: 3.5 OUT OF 5
OVERALL RATING: 3.75 OUT OF 5
Kyke Kiekintveld’s Review:
Me In Motion is a self titled debut album and is worthy of a listen for any Christian Rock fan. It is a light album that does not lose its religious roots while remaining easily enjoyable. Few bands and albums can maintain that sort of balancing act but Me In Motion does it well and make it look easy.
“Welcome to Your Life” is an example of how to band can deliver a sincere emotional song while not sounding overly dramatic. It is one of the better tracks on the album and one of the most addicting as well. At the center of the track is the message we all need to change our lives and leave the negative behind through Christ.
Me In Motion excels in its simplicity. It is not over produced and it is not overly complex leaving the album feeling like a great live show. The softer tracks offer wonderful acoustic guitars and great drums and the hardest tracks still keep a mellow energy at its core. It is a hard album not to enjoy, offering sincere emotion lyrics without losing any momentum.
Me In Motion offers listeners an energetic debut album that is sure to win over fans of lighter rock. The lyrics are light but not superficial, deftly avoiding becoming a bubble gum pop album. The entire album is simply produced and executed leaving it feel like a good live show.
Author’s Note: Me In Motion’s debut achieves what any debut is meant to, it introduces a band in the best way possible, by being a really good album. It falls a little short of greatness merely because it just isn’t my choice of fair. I have no doubt this album will be well received and Me In Motion will be a band to watch out for in the future.
Thomas Jenkin’s Review:
All I knew about Me in Motion before I started listening to their self titled debut was that they were touring with Red and Pillar. Naturally, from the bit of information, I thus expected Me in Motion to be on the harder edge of the rock spectrum. As anyone who has ever listened to this band before would tell me though, this simply is not true, as Me in Motion delivers solid pop/rock, with enjoyable lyrics, and deliver an altogether satisfying debut album.
I didn’t have high expectations when I started listening to Me in Motion. I hadn’t heard anything from them, so maybe I was being a little unfair, but for some reason I expected that they would be another run of the mill pop/rock band with little to make them stick in from the proverbial crowd. After I heard the first song though, “Losers”, all of my expectations drastically changed. The song starts off routinely, but then as the chorus with its solid vocal harmonies kicks in, it turns into an album highlight, and a great song for the band to pick for a single. The following song, “The God I Know” also shines, with good lyrics, and yet another great chorus. These two first songs give a fairly good example of what’s to come on this album, as it’s almost entirely pop/rock anthems with only a few stops along the way. One of those stops comes in the form of the ballad “Seek Justice Love Mercy” which immediately follows “Losers” and “The God I Know”. Although it has an intriguing title and concept, it’s sadly tailored all too well for Christian radio, so there’s nothing special there, although I’m sure some will disagree.
Any other missteps that Me in Motion make in their debut come in the middle of the album. For example, the song “You Never Fail Me” which is entirely predictable and easy to forget. Fortunately for everybody though, Me in Motion picks themselves back up, and end the album solidly with the infectiously catchy “Here in the Middle” and “You Move Me”
Me in Motion does a lot of things right with their debut. It’s definitely not perfect, but if you like pop/rock it’s also definitely worth checking out. They’re clearly still learning, (“You Never Fail Me”), but they also know how to write fun pop/rock songs (“Losers”) and show a lot of maturity for such a young band. They’ve got a lot of potential, as well as a solid debut album, and should definitely be a band to look out for. Recommended
Review copy provided courtesy of Centricity Music
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