PEABOD
Healthy Snacks
Centricity, 2018
At first it sounds like Eminem doing a Weird Al impression or Weird Al doing an Eminem impression. For a second, you roll your eyes and want it to stop. Then you don’t want it to stop. Then you kind of start dancing. This is pure ear candy hip hop, the catchiest CCM release of the year. There’s a reason the video to “Shoot from the Hip” has nearly 200,000 views in two months. And when your hit song may not even be the catchiest on your debut album, you know you’re doing something right. Lyrically, “Healthy Snacks” is a veritable millennial word bank, articulated with rare wit, brimming with positivity. “‘Healthy Snacks’ is all about entering into joy because it’s good for your soul, just like healthy snacks are good for your body,” Issac Peabody, whose stage name is PEABOD, writes. “At a surface level, I just wanted to have as much fun making music as I could. On a deeper level, the joy throughout the album comes from knowing Jesus and understanding the gospel. My hope is that people listening to the album would have a ton of fun with these songs and that they would also embrace the joy that comes with knowing Jesus.”
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Meet the reviewer
Jeremy Henderson reviews music for The Alabama Baptist. He is co-host of Rich and Jeremy in the Mornings on Wings 94.3 FM, editor of The War Eagle Reader.
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