★★★★★
In recent years, there has been no shortage of opinion when it comes to that which is now affectionately known as the deluxe edition. Not to be confused with a rerelease - where a long out-of-circulation album is pulled from the vaults, treated to a full remastering, fleshed out with an new set of liner notes and once again bestowed upon the public at large, many of whom may never have heard the project in its original incarnation - these expanded editions, as they're also called, are an...
- www.jesusfreakhideout.com
2013-09-27
★★★★★
So, what does an artist do after he's netted fifteen Top 20 singles (including five chart toppers), penned compositions for everyone from Mandisa to Rascal Flatts, pulled in a veritable truckload of Billboard, Grammy and Dove awards and nominations, overcome a potentially career-ending vocal ailment and had his name tossed into the mix for, of all things, a Daytime Emmy...
- www.jesusfreakhideout.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Buy 'Into The Light' at: Matthew West has just released his sixth studio album 'Into The Light'. As with his critically acclaimed 2010 album, 'The Story of Your Life', all the songs on this new 12 track album are inspired by letters submitted by fans. When you know that the songs on this album are actually real life stories you look at them in a different light...
- www.louderthanthemusic.com
2012-10-04
★★★★★
Matthew West is one of my favourite artists of late, releasing such a hard-hitting, emotional, poignant and impacting album The Story of Your Life back in 2010, with singles 'My Own Little World', 'Family Tree', 'Strong Enough' and 'The Healing Has Begun'...
- www.indievisionmusic.com
2012-09-24
★★★★★
Buy 'Heart Of Christmas' at: The Heart of Christmas is Matthew West's first Christmas album, however you may have already heard some of the songs such as Christmas Makes Me Cry and Give This Christmas Away as they have made appearances over the years, also some can be heard on the Something to Say Christmas edition album...
- www.louderthanthemusic.com
2011-11-24
★★★★★
(iTunes LINK)(Amazonmp3 LINK)(Spotify LINK) It's funny when an artist gives himself a task that is outside the norm and it produces something quite unexpected. It can come in the form of a side project or a covers album or in this case Matthew West approaching the subject of Christmas and for much of The Heart of Christmas stepping outside of the box that I remember putting him when he put forth The Story of Your Life just last year...
- christianmusiczine.com
2011-10-17
★★★★★
Matthew West is back with his third album and he really has something to say, to sing infact. This album has come out of a time when Matthew could not say anything, he lost his voice had to have an operation on his vocal chords and could not speak for a long time, and through that time he had no idea if he would be able to sing again. Something to say is one miraculously incredible album and I say it is Matthew's best work to date and definitely one of the best albums of the year...
- www.louderthanthemusic.com
2010-12-28
★★★★★
The five time Dove nominee Matthew West is back with a Christmas edition of his 'Something To Say' album ready for Christmas. The new package includes 5 new Christmas songs, 2 acoustic versions of songs from the album as well as the entire original album. I would love to know why they decided to re-release as opposed to releasing a Christmas EP but that information doesn't seem to be available anywhere on the net, so we'll just soldier on...
- www.louderthanthemusic.com
2010-12-28
★★★★★
Matthew West's fourth album, The Story Of Your Life is a brave, original, different and unique album. Matthew has written songs based on real life stories from real life people, he received about ten thousand stories from ordinary people about events that had happened in their lives. Matthew read through all these stories and wrote songs based on them, and the aptly titled The Story Of Your Life is a collection of these songs...
- www.louderthanthemusic.com
2010-12-28