Album Of The Day: Transparent by LaRue

Album Art of LaRue's Transparent album - A series of 3 photos. The first photo, taking up the top quarter of the area, is a close up of a young man looking into the camera while leaning over, such that his white T-shirt can be seen behind his face and curly blond-brown hair and in front of the cloudy, diffuse sky and the field beyond. The second photo, talking up the second quarter vertically, is of a young woman wearing a black jacket and with brown hair pinned behind her head and a white flower in her hair. She's looking down to the ground while leaning over, it seems. The bottom half of the area is a very wide, overhead shot of the two playing in a field, it seems like maybe the man is running to catch up to the woman. The grassy field is green, so the majority of the album cover art is green. In the top left of that photo is printed the group name, and to the right of the woman is printed the album title.

Released 25 years ago last week, this is the second album from LaRue, the brother-sister duo of Phillip and Natalie LaRue. Though this is an album in my collection, it's not a favorite of mine; I think I've only listened to it a few times in the last 20 years. But that doesn't mean it's not a decent listen for the first time in about 10 years. I remember liking these songs a lot more when they came out, but they're still not bad. Phillip and Natalie wrote all these songs themselves and have a good mix of pop and rock. Their vocals are both excellent and distinct, their harmonies are magic and I forgot how much some of these songs rock, like "I Can't See" and "Seem To Be" near the end of the album. Though they were known for Christian pop, songs like "Jaded" and "Brianna's Song" show that these youngsters were struggling with the complexities of life and not just singing about platitudes they heard in church. It's been a long time since I listened to this, but it's still worth a listen all these years later, actually.

Release Year: 2001
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