Apparently it’s been seven years since TobyMac last released a remix album, though I’m not sure many people have been keeping count. In general, remix albums can come across like a stopgap between proper albums, and because of that, they’re a little hard to review. 

TobyMac’s style has always been a bit of everything thrown in the blender: pop-rock, hip hop, and electronic included. 

This schizophrenic mix does a decent enough job of helping you forget that you are actually listening to a 47-year old-white man yelling lyrics like, “we came to guarantee the big crunk!” – whatever that means. 

What the unfortunately named Dubbed and Freq’d does is present remixed versions of songs that already sound like mash-ups to begin with. And, of course, it adds in a sprinkling of the flavour of the moment: dubstep. No matter how out of place, a good old dubstep drop is always around the corner. 

TobyMac doesn’t often try to make music that is anything other than dumb fun. This album is more of both of those things. 

Three stars out of five