Album Of The Day: Recognition by Carolyn Arends

Album Art of Carolyn Arends's Recognition album - A photo of a white wall with a grey floor at the bottom. On the floor is a wooden bench in front of a painting mounted on the wall. The painting is wider than the bench and almost as tall as it is wide. It's a painting of a street in a city with multi-story buildings lining the side of the road. The sun is setting in the background and it's lighting up the road. In the foreground of the painting the cars are stopped and about a dozen people are crossing the intersection at a crosswalk. Below the painting, just above the bench, is printed the artist name in bold blue, uppercase text and the album title next to it in a dark grey, smaller, lowercase serif font.

Released 5 years ago yesterday, this is the 12th and latest album by Carolyn Arends, if my counting is correct. I first heard Carolyn Arends when she was a Christian pop/contemporary singer-songwriter in the mid-to-late 1990s. But after that style gave way to rock in the 2000s, she continued to release new music on smaller Canadian labels and I didn't hear it as much. But in 2020, she launched a crowd-funding campaign to release a new album, and I got a copy from supporting that campaign. Honestly, I haven't listened to it too much since it's release, but it's a good album and I enjoyed my listen today a lot. Her lyrics are honest, have some fun turns of phrase and show that, like the rest of us, she is struggling with life in this modern day. A highlight is "Without Music", which features Amy Grant on harmonies and a verse; it's a beautiful song about the gift music is to humanity. And through it all, Carolyn Arends makes it clear that what keeps her going is her faith in God and God's love. It's a beautiful album of new pop with a bit of a country flavor from an experienced musician, and I'm happy to have contributed a tiny bit to help the artist release it.

Release Year: 2021
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