Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) seems to be chameleonic by nature, always adopting the protective coloration of some pop-music style in order to gain or maintain an audience. In their 12 years of existence, Newsboys have been more changeable than most CCM artists, both geographically (having moved from Australia to Nashville) and stylistically. In 1997, lead singer John James departed, and the group came to be guided by Peter Furler, who assumed the chief vocal chores. The result was 1998's Step Up to the Microphone, whose light-pop style found favor with the faithful. Its follow-up, Love Liberty Disco, will sound to the uninitiated like a Britpop clone of Oasis and its ilk. Furler emotes in an airy tenor which shades into falsetto over pop/rock arrangements that, like all the Britpop bands, mix the heavy influence of the Beatles with more recent styles. Love Liberty Disco successfully follows CCM's basic formula, smartly aping an existing pop style in a Christian context. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Dan Harding (Design), Michael Ruiz (Photography), Shane D. Wilson (Engineer), Jan Cook (Art Direction), Peter Furler (Producer), Christiév Carothers (Creative Director)
Love Liberty Disco is the eighth studio album by Christianpop rockbandNewsboys, released in 1999. In some regards a concept album, Love Liberty Disco deviates from the Newsboys' standard pop rock style and focuses on 70's era-inspired sounds and disco.
released as a double A-side single, with the former geared towards AC radio, and the latter towards the CHR/Rock format, which ended up as the bigger hit at the time
