The result of a successful Kickstarter campaign, Borderland, the fourth long-player from earthy Charlotte, North Carolina-based singer/songwriter
John Mark McMillan, offers up a richly detailed set of creative and impassioned praise & worship songs that eschew the usual CCM, megachurch pop templates in favor of a more organic, experimental, and authentic approach, especially on epics like "Future/Past" and "Guns Napoleon," that evokes the fiery folk-rock of
Bruce Springsteen, the shape-shifting cadences of
Gungor, and the heartfelt, rustic affability of
the David Crowder Band. ~ James Christopher Monger