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Recording information: FabMusic, Franklin, TN; The Blue Room, Franklin, TN. Photographer: Lee Steffen . Like 2010`s bright and engaging Tonight, Toby McKeehan`s fifth solo outing further distances the Grammy- and Dove-award winning contemporary christian music artist from his hip-hop past, offering up 12 perfectly executed slabs of slick, radio-ready, electro-tinged pop that eschew religious dogma for affable, everyman spirituality. A pulsating, relentlessly positive set of tunes that toggle between the dancefloor, the bedroom window, and the open road, the 12-track Eye On It represents tobyMac`s most accessible collection of songs to date. Fat synth saw leads dominate the more club-oriented cuts like the propulsive title cut, "Me Without You," and "Unstoppable," which features guest vocals from Blanca Callahan of Group 1 Crew, while McKeehan adopts a decidedly more introspective temperament on more midtempo numbers like "Steal My Show," Lose Yourself," and "Forgiveness," the latter of which, in a nod to dc Talk-era McKeehan`s hip-hop days, includes an appearance by rapper/producer/actor Lecrae. In keeping with the tradition of tobyMac`s reputation for mixing things up in the genre department, Eye On It ends on a truly whimsical note with "My Favorite Song," an inspirational, feel-good romp that pairs the heart-on-its-sleeve piano pop of Fun.`s "We are Young" (with predictably less debauched trappings) with the bottle-swinging camaraderie of a barrelhouse singalong, resulting in a whole new CCM subgenre that`s best described as christian electro-ragtime.
Condition:NEW.Drilled case.
TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 Me Without You (0:00)
2 Steal My Show (0:00)
3 Eye On It (0:00)
4 Forgiveness (0:00)
5 Speak Life (0:00)
6 UnStoppable (0:00)
7 Lose Myself (0:00)
8 Family (0:00)
9 Thankful For You (0:00)
10 Made For Me (0:00)
11 Mac Daddy (Tru's Reality) (0:00)
12 Favorite Song (0:00)
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