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The first thing to say about Nashville singer-songwriter Lauryn Peacock’s new full-length
Theology is that it manages to live up to its title by not sounding overtly theological. In her latest songs, Peacock adds a sense of moral gravity to the texture of everyday life, but she delivers her insights into the nature of religious belief by making her music as engaging — and, at times, as indecisive — as the lives of the struggling human beings she writes about.
Theology is a record about religion, but it’s not a drag. It’s high-level pop that might make you rethink your own spirituality, and her substantial melodic and harmonic gifts help the medicine go down as sweetly as it can.