![]() By keeping a firm footing on high-powered gospel vocals, Tribbett is able to gel an endless palette of sensibilities, including ferocious funk-rock ("Victory," "I Want It All Back"), Celtic pop ("Hallelujah to Your Name"), bossa nova ( Andraé Crouch's "Bless the Lord"), pop/rock ("No Other Choice"), inspirational ("Seated at the Right Hand of God"), and even straight-up Broadway ("Everything Will Be Alright," "Sinking"). Instead, Tribbett makes sure his agenda for the disc - to inspire the faithful to use praise to declare victory over their own inadequacies - isn't obscured by the pyrotechnics, which are already formidable to begin with. ![]() The album's sonic ambitions recall those of gospel provocateur Tonéx - himself a kindred spirit of bandleader Tye Tribbett - but here things aren't overblown to the point of exhaustion or showmanship. Victory Live! is different: it explodes right out of the gate to position itself as one of the most unusual, spellbinding contemporary gospel spectacles of 2006, if not of the entire history of the subgenre. Ironically and perhaps coincidentally, Victory Live!'s predecessor, 2004's Life, had more in common with Philly in the way it married urban gospel with neo-soul tendencies, but overall it was too polite an album to really catch anyone by surprise. took to the stage of a Philadelphia megachurch to record the follow-up, Victory Live!, thus offering a more true-to-form representation of the group's sound, synergy, and spirit. After a solid yet otherwise understated in-studio debut, contemporary gospel supergroup Tye Tribbett & G.A.
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