Album Of The Day: CHRISTIANsongs by Joy Electric

Album Art of Joy Electric's CHRISTIANsongs album - A color photo of two white men in bright red suits on a white background. Both have fairly short, brown hair and sideburns, and the one on the left is holding a keytar. Neither of them are looking at the camera and are looking in different directions. About 2/3 of the way down vertically the band name is printed horizontally across the photo in large black text. In the bottom left corner, printed above the white in much smaller red text is the album title, 'CHRISTIANsongs'.

Released 27 years ago yesterday, this is the fourth album from Joy Electric, the long-time electronic band primarily composed of Ronnie Martin. Ronnie builds whole musical landscapes with his synthesizers and sings over them, and usually they are very poetic, sometimes fairy tale stories, and there's definitely a bit of that on this album too. But as the album title might suggest, Ronnie wears his Christian faith on his sleeve for this album. As usual, it's synthesizer-driven pop with a bit of a punk ethos, but songs like "Children Of The Lord" and "Lift Up Your Hearts" have lyrics that are more overtly Christian and might be played on Christian radio at the time. Even a cover of a Keith Green song is included on this album. There's definitely a bunch of songs that are less "Christian" and just more normal Joy Electric, like "Disco For A Ride", "Synthesized I Want You Synthesized" and "I Sing Electric". It's a fun album and maybe one of their more accessible releases, in my opinion.

Release Year: 1999
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