Album Review: Lauren Daigle

With a colorful mix of vintage instrumentals, jazz fusion, funk grooves, and Latin percussion, Lauren Daigle’s self-titled third studio album shows her uniquely bright fingerprint on the Contemporary Christian Music Industry. A versatile artist, her lead ballad “Thank God I Do” fits in seamlessly with the R&B-Influenced “These Are the Days”, which has already taken over the radio. Even the backing graphic for her Spotify release is a flashing Andy Warhol inspired diptych.

Her lyrics are authentic, creative, and convicting. Her track “Don’t Believe Them” contemplates ideas which are central to her Christian faith “How are you gonna love someone if you don’t forgive them? How are you going to hear what they say if you never listen?”, while the 5th song in the album “To Know Me” acknowledges how she was shaped by those closest to her and explores how fleeting those sweet moments with loved ones are—she wonders what she would trade to have some of these people back in her life.

In reflecting on how this new sound compares to her previous release, Look Up Child from 2018, Lauen says “this isn’t what was making me come alive five years ago, but it’s making me come alive now”. With the first half of this double-album having been released earlier this year, the second half is further exploring this venture into the soulful, jazzy sound we hear in her Christmas album “Behold”.