Sounds like … Hillsong United, Detour 180, By the Tree, Lincoln Brewster, and other youth-oriented worship proponents.
At a glance … This new younger incarnation of Parachute Band doesn't have enough of a voice of its own, sounding too much like predecessors and many other similar worship groups.
When Parachute Band founders Wayne and Libby Huirua announced at a live event they'd be stepping down from the group they helped establish in 1996, it's not hard to imagine the collective gasp. After all, the announcement wasn't made at just any live event, but before a stunned crowd of 27,000 at New Zealand's Parachute Festival—the very same outdoor extravaganza that motivated the Huiruas to start leading worship more than ten years ago.
However, the pair didn't bail on the whole thing without a backup plan. They decided to pass the baton to a newer, younger incarnation of the group—five guys with the hearts and stamina to carry the band's modern worship vision forward with a "new face" and a "fresh sound." Going by the members' looks alone—Converse sneakers, skinny jeans, emo t-shirts, nappy haircuts—one would assume this new guard is a more punkish, garage rock version of itself, or maybe some sort of post-hardcore worship team.
At least part of the new group's debut Roadmaps and Revelations sounds like it's heading in a hipper, trendier direction. "The Way" proves that much with fuzzy guitars and a frenetic, beat-on-beat drum cadence giving way to a raucous praise song unlike anything in the storied Parachute repertoire. It's a healthy start, but alas, one that's only sustained temporarily before the sound devolves into something much more familiar and generic. There's not enough distinctive here to separate this new band from the pack, much less their predecessors....
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