Narnia - Awakening (1998)

As a Christian, it has been quite strange as to why I have never had very much Christian music in my collection. There are various reasons for that, most of which I'm not going to get into now, but one reason has been that I just haven't always been particularly excited by the music. 
In my power metal indulgence, I really have tried to find some Christian acts, and Swedish duo Narnia came up.
This is their debut. The production is fine, Christian Liljegren has a good voice, and Carl Johan Grimmark plays the instrumentation with skill. But the music just isn't very good. It's there, but not compelling or interesting. As far as the lyrics are concerned, it's nice to have some Christian flavour for a change but, while they're not as bad as something like Hillsong, they're not exactly "And Can It Be?" either.
Overall, I really, really would like to enthuse more about this record. But I can't. It's not bad. It just isn't much of anything.

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