Keith Brown's This Side of Heaven is a straight out energetic Pop album with soulful ballads. It seems almost ready made for Top-40 radio. That shouldn't be a surprise considering Keith Brown has been writing pop music for years. He's saved up some good songs and added some fresh new tunes that communicate directly to believers and will make non-believers consider their need for Christ.
There is a noticeable contrast between the old and new songs. The older songs are more "technical" rather than artistic. Brown takes a few more risks with the newer songs, making more artistic statements in "Wind in the Fire," "Unto Us" (a Christmas song), and "Psalm 100" (a Pop hymn).
The album pumps from the beginning only bothering to slow down a little for ballads, which are tender but not sappy, relying heavily on a piano accompaniment-while still remaining strictly Pop.
Dez Dickerson lends Brown a hand for the production duties and the pair went overboard on this project. Almost all the music is sequenced and synthesized and quite a few layers deep.
It is an excellent project, but only for devoted Pop fans.
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