Love & The Outcome Lights Up The Dark During a Difficult Time of Year With “It’s Still Christmas,”

Curb | Word Entertainment’s Love & The Outcome lights up the dark during what can be a difficult time of year for many with “It’s Still Christmas.”

The second in a pair of new seasonal selections this year from Love & The Outcome, “It’s Still Christmas” speaks to those feeling the weight of loss, heartache, and grief this holiday season. Acknowledging that Christmas isn’t always the most wonderful time of the year, the mid-tempo track offers a shaft of light on an otherwise dark night, assuring listeners that hope remains even when the holidays find us missing the ones we love.

Co-written by the duo’s Jodi King and Chris Rademaker, alongside Mark Campbell and Benji Cowart, “It’s Still Christmas” follows the debut of “The Wonder of Christmas.” The bright song, full of descriptive lyrics and childlike faith, reminds us that the reigning King of Kings was once a tiny, innocent baby in a manger, and invites us to relish the wonder of the season through the eyes of their two boys, Milo and Ziggy, who appear in the song’s official music video — watch HERE. The duo, who will celebrate 19 years of marriage in December, penned the song with Tony Wood and Mark Campbell, the latter of whom also produced the single.

The back-to-back holiday originals arrive on the heels of Love & The Outcome’s third studio LP, Only Ever Always, which released this spring — listen HERE. The recent flooding of their home inspired the 13-track collection as the couple realized rain precedes the rainbow. Produced by Seth Mosley, Mark Campbell and Colin Munroe, the album is colored by the act’s signature blend of positive pop and a retro groove. It boasts select songs from their 2020 EP, You’ve Got This, as well as hits like “I’m Not Lucky, I’m Blessed” and the duo’s new radio single, “Look What God Has Done.”

Stream or purchase “It’s Still Christmas” HERE. Purchase tickets for “The Wonder Of Christmas Tour” HERE. For more information, visit www.loveandtheoutcome.com.

“The Wonder Of Christmas Tour” Dates:

12/2 | Memphis, TN – Pioneer Church
12/3 | Halls, TN – First United Methodist Church
12/6 | Nashville, TN – Crievewood Baptist Church
12/7 | Shamokin, PA – The Alliance Church
12/8 | Huntingtown, MD – Life Church Calvert
12/11 | Troy, MO – Growing Faith Ministries

NFN Review Zone – LOVE & THE OUTCOME : Only Ever Always. (https://loveandtheoutcome.com)

Almost exactly a year after Love & The Outcome’s Jodi King and Chris Rademaker lost their Nashville home to a major flood, here we have this married couple’s third studio full-lengther. According to the press release, “the recent flooding of their home inspired the 13-track collection as the couple realized rain precedes the rainbow”. Including “select songs from their 2020 EP ‘You’ve Got This’”, it is obvious from the opener ‘Only ever always’ that Love & The Outcome are capable of classy, well produced ‘drums-n-bass’ pop ccm – an impression that continues as the album progresses. Full advantage is taken of Jodi’s excellent (and often multi-tracked) vocals, which are mixed well forward and lead the way with easily heard well-written lyrics through one great earworm melody after another. Some lyrics are overtly Christian – including their current radio single ‘I’m not lucky, I’m blessed’ (“I’m a child of the King”) and the uplifting ‘Look what God has done’, whilst others are more ambiguous. The optimistic ‘End of the day’ (“even in the darkest night there’s just enough Light to say we’re all gonna be ok”) the emerging from adversity ‘Lookin’ up’ (“Things are lookin’ up, I feel it in the air”), and the cleverly written and slower ‘Same page’ (“Tired of going my own way, help me hear what You say, want to be on the same page, me and You”) are three tracks that particularly take my attention first time through. A standout? Such is the consistency here that I struggle to select one. In the end, and as with the outstanding Ashlyn Nicole EP that I reviewed last month, I finally decide on the closing track. ‘Moving on’ (“I’ve waved goodbye to my regrets”) is a great power ballad that showcases Jodi’s abilities at the high notes(!) and provides a fitting end to an excellent album. Downsides? Only one really is that to my audiophile ears the sound tends to be a touch compressed – not by overmuch though, and the music’s good enough for this to be forgiven(!), so it’s a 10/10. Dave Deeks