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The Newsboys ability be advised the Van Halen of Christian music. Van Halen is one of the few bands anytime to alter one accompanist (David Lee Roth) with addition accompanist (Sammy Hagar) and not alone survive the change, but go on to match, if not exceed, the success of the original.
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In 2009, the Newsboys’ accompanist (and capital songwriter) Peter Furler larboard the band, abrogation the actual leash of keyboardist/bassist Jeff Frankenstein, bagman Duncan Phillips and guitarist Jody Davis to aces up the pieces.
Like Van Halen, though, the Newsboys begin a new vocalist. Michael Tait abutting the group. Since it was founded in 1980s, the accumulation from Queensland, Australia, has won bristles Dove Awards (the Christian music industry’s agnate of a Grammy) and appear nine beeline albums that all went Top 5 on the Christian music blueprint (with four hitting No. 1).
Tait began his career in the Christian rap/pop leash DC Talk, which had three beeline albums that topped one actor copies awash – “Free At Last” (1992), “Jesus Freak” (1995) and “Supernatural” (1998). Those albums netted DC Talk three Grammy Awards and added than a dozen Dove Awards.
Still Frankenstein said the anew revamped accumulation knew actuality able to sustain its success was annihilation but a abiding thing.
“I anticipate whenever you change beforehand singers, it’s apparently one of the hardest things that a bandage can do,” Frankenstein said in a contempo buzz interview. “I anticipate we knew we had about one year there area it was affectionate of like accomplish it or breach it. Either bodies are activity to see it and they’re activity to be like ‘Nah, that’s not as good’ or they’re activity to be like ‘Wow, this is absolutely cool. I like area this is going.’”
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Fans were in the closing camp. Back the new copy of the Newsboys appear its aboriginal anthology together, “Born Again,” in 2010, it debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard anthology chart, acceptable the able charting anthology in the Newsboys’ history.
Since then, the group’s drive has alone grown, with an alike added acknowledged 2011 album, “God’s Not Dead.” This able fall, the bandage appear “Restart.” One of the above affidavit for the success, Frankenstein said, can be traced to a key accommodation fabricated afterwards Tait abutting the group. Initially, Furler had adumbrated that while he would no best bout with the Newsboys, he would abide to address and aftermath songs for the group.
That didn’t happen.
“Peter and all of us are still accompany to this day,” Frankenstein said. “We still got calm and afraid out, had banquet together. Everything was on absolutely acceptable terms. I anticipate he (Peter) aloof acquainted that it was best, afterwards seeing what was happening, it was best if he aloof got out of the way a little bit. I anticipate that’s affectionate of what happened. It was annihilation personal.”
Instead, the accumulation associates absitively to attending alfresco of the accumulation for songwriting and assembly contributions. As a result, while Tait has had co-writing credits on some songs, the group’s three post-Furler albums accept featured all-encompassing captivation from alfresco songwriters and producers.
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“It was aloof a altered mentality and it absolutely freed up everybody to be themselves, in so abounding altered ways. That was cool. I anticipate it was a absolutely acceptable thing,” Frankenstein said.
“Even if you attending at bands like U2, (singer) Bono doesn’t sit there by himself and try to actualize an absolute anthology by himself. He brings in Daniel Lanois and some of the best ablaze minds in the apple to alike accomplish it greater than it anytime could be. So affectionate of employing that action was actual acceptable for us.”
For “Restart,” the Newsboys set an aggressive ambition – to actualize an anthology that would be altered from annihilation in the group’s catalog, as able-bodied as Christian music as a whole.
“I anticipate Christian music has afflicted a lot,” Frankenstein said. “A lot of the added acknowledged annal are adoration records, which acutely there’s annihilation amiss with that. We’ve done absolutely a bit of that appearance of music as well. But we aloof affectionate of acquainted like it would be abundant to accomplish a account and accomplish a pop almanac that would be from a assembly standpoint on par with annihilation on the radio, article that could angle up with any pop music, but still backpack that ability of a actuality message.
“And it complex a lot of songwriting, a lot of people, a lot of mixes, a lot of accurate allegory of things,” he said. “I’m not adage that we absolutely able that goal, but I anticipate it’s a abundant pop record.”
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Frankenstein isn’t overstating the accomplishment that went into “Restart.” Work on the anthology spanned two years and abounding of the songs complex three or added writers. The capital songwriter/producers on the anthology – Joshua Silverberg, Christopher Stevens and David Garcia – had not ahead formed with the Newsboys.
The time and accomplishment paid off. “Restart” has the bright assembly affection one hears in albums by the Katy Perrys, Lady Gagas and Rihannas of the world. Songs like “Fishers Of Men,” “That’s How You Change The World” and the appellation clue affection trademarks of top 40 pop – music congenital about synthesizers and computer-generated instrumentation, big constructed beats and bathetic articulate melodies. Frankenstein said the Newsboys will affection best of the songs from “Restart” in its 45-minute headlining set on this year’s Winter Jam bout – a amalgamation bout that appearance 10 Christian music acts.
“We absitively to sit bottomward a brace of months in beforehand and absolutely bulk out a way to affectionate of amalgamate songs together, about added of a medley, (so) that we could comedy as abounding songs as we could in the bulk of time (we have),” Frankenstein said.
“Because back you’re the aftermost bandage on Winter Jam, back you’re the 10th bandage arena and bodies are tired, they’ve gotten their aerial absolute off and it’s 10 o’clock, you’ve got to appear up with article that’s absorbing at that point in the night. So we absitively to accumulate it as absorbing and fast affective as possible, ” he said.
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