Royal Tailor sounds like a collage of just about everything that has been on the radio in the last five years. “Death Of Me” starts off like something by Chris Brown or Ne-yo, before heavy rock guitars enter the picture towards the end and make the outro sound like a Thousand Foot Krutch song.
“Make A Move” is paint-by-numbers Maroon 5, and in other places this group channel Bruno Mars and One Republic. It’s all a bit schizophrenic, but it manages to hold together because it’s also catchy and energetic. Then there’s the fact that while this kind of music is par for the course on secular radio, in the Christian scene it actually comes across as quite fresh.
Lyrically, Royal Tailor are lacklustre. It’s all “read between the lines and you’ll see I’m singing about Jesus, not my girlfriend,” focused on how God makes everything better as well as making the group feel warm and squishy and loved. Having said that, this group are well worth checking out if you want something different.
Three stars out of five
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