Album: Rush of Fools
Artist: Rush of Fools
Label: Midas Records
Sounds like: Casting Crowns, Mercyme

It’s all here—earnest, midtempo songs, simple acoustic guitar strumming, a onedimensional sound, basic three-note riffs and four-chord choruses straight from songwriting basics classes. They’d probably get a B+, and that’s the problem—there is nothing here that’s surprising and not formulaic. Unfortunately, this album could serve as a summary of where much of Christian music is these days—brainless and simplistically triumphant, a legacy of “modern worship.” (And two of the culprits, Jason Ingram and Matt Brownlee, cowrite songs here.) The themes are well-worn too—God picks us up, finds the lost, chases away darkness, so we raise our hands and lift our voices. It’s all true but it could be spelt out in more artful fashion. This, like fairy floss, has plenty of sugar but doesn’t sustain.  

Nicks rating: 2/5