Jaci Velasquez
“Trust/Confio”
Integrity Music, 2017
Hard to believe it’s been five years since the wonderful Jaci Velasquez hit the studio for a full-length album, but it’s nice to report that it’s been worth the wait. Especially since we kind of got two albums out of it.
“Trust/Confio” is the first bilingual release for the multi-platinum-selling contemporary Christian music mainstay. Disc One is in English; Disc Two features the same songs sung in Spanish. (Velasquez counts five Spanish recordings among her 17 albums; she’s also won a Billboard Latin Music Award.)
Also hard to believe given her prolific, 25-year career is that “Trust” is her first worship record. Thankfully, she nails it.
Musically, some praise and worship can broach monotony. “Trust” doesn’t.
It’s poppy for a praise album. Until it isn’t.
It’s electronic. Until it’s acoustic.
It’s mid-tempo. Until the final song, “Sound of Your Kingdom.”
Lyrically, it stays focused on the Lord from start to finish (or “de principio a fin”).
—By Jeremy Henderson, TAB music reviewer
Editor’s Note — 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 and attends Parkway Baptist Church, Auburn.
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