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Backstreet Boys

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Backstreet Boys Unbreakable BY ALICE SHYY hrough the lush popscape of the Backstreet Boys’ vocally fertile forests in their comeback album Unbreakable speed questions with the urgency of does at the mercy of bloodlusty hounds: 1. Backstreet’s back? Really? 2. And they spent a year and a half in the studio with legendary pop songwriters and producers? 3. So why do tracks like “Inconsolable” and “Something That I Already Know” have the same chorus relative within a half-step? 4. Since when did the Boys come to Jesus, or at least to His godforsaken form of popular music? 5. And why, oh why are there only four of them now? Some answers: 1. Actually, Backstreet’s back again . In all fairness, Unbreakable , the Boys’ sixth full-length release (including a greatest hits anthology), is a comeback-comeback album—2005’s forgettable Never Gone was the group’s poorly received first effort to return to the glory days of Backstreet Boys (1997) and Millennium

Singers

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Faith features You are in: Hereford and Worcester > Faith > Faith features > Phil Simpson Monthly Album Phil Simpson Monthly Album Each month, Phil selects an album to feature on his Sunday Breakfast show... Amazing God November 2007 Our album of the month for November is "Amazing God" featuring 12 tracks recorded at a conference organised by the New Frontiers group of churches earlier this year. Around four thousand people from more than fifty countries attended the conference in Brighton - and this recording captures some of the vibrant praise and passionate worship from the event. Included on here are two traditional hymns ("When I survey the wondrous cross" and "Amazing Grace") alongside a whole bunch of new songs. Tim Hughes' anthemic "Happy Day" gives the album a punchy start, and Brenton Brown's song "Everlasting God", which has appeared on at least four new live worshi

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