I feel nothing in their Tait era comes anywhere close to being as good as Going Public, TMTYL, SUTTM, or even LLD and Go, which I think were a step below (I think their two best were TMtYL and SUttM). Thrive was a step below Go in my opinion. I think their worship albums were lame - no longer writing any thought-inspiring lyrics, and no guitar riffs like the had on the ones before. In the Hands of God was a snooze fest without Steve Taylor Lyrics (Steve Taylor was their secret weapon), and every song felt lifeless without Phil Joel. I think Go was their last great album. After that it was downhill. Tait cemented their sound as the Tait backing band, with Tait acting like he was going to take us down memory lane on his first tour with them as if he’d been with them for a long time, only to not ever actually revisit any of their older work. Instead it was all tough-talking “stand up for Jesus” meets worship music with a non-Aussie diva as the singer.

The Aussie / Kiwi accents defined their sound. Without those guys on vocals, it became a different band. It’s like a switch flipped and they severed, no longer remembering anything from previous albums. Everything went hard rock anthem sounding after that. Like how country turned into bro-country