With perhaps Christian music’s most recognizable head of hair, longtime veteran of the genre, Phil Joel is back in 2021 via the solo route. After striking out on his own from the Newsboys, then forming worship-centric band Zealand and ultimately returning for the Newsboys United era; it’s a treat to have him come back to his pop/rock roots. He does so with this six-song EP, titled Better Than I Found It...

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Charlie Peacock is one of the Christian music industry's most decorated figures, even if most of his work is behind the scenes. He's released over a dozen vocal albums since the 80s, and he's produced and written dozens more for household names like Switchfoot and Nichole Nordeman. But an artist's work is never done since the world that surrounds him is never done, and at the start of 2021, we desperately need to listen to what our artists choose to say. Peacock seems aware of this responsibility, as Skin and Wind is a collection of quiet reflections on our relational and spiritual connection with each other and the Divine...

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With the past year being a big curveball year for the music industry, Eric Marshall, aka Young Oceans, also had to rethink recording and releasing plans for new music. Originally, his desire was to gather all the session players that would be participating and record the new tracks live in the same room. Alas, the pandemic in March of 2020 squashed those plans, forcing everyone to record their parts separately from entirely different locations. Additionally, this new record, titled You Are Fullness, was intended to be two separate EPs with one dropping on 2020 and the other in 2021. Scrapping those plans, Marshall decided to go all-in with a full-length in early January...

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