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If you listened to Christian rock in the 1990s, dc Talk, a trio featuring Michael Tait, Kevin Max, and Toby McKeehan,  Since going their own separate ways in the year 2000, each member has done their own thing, musically, with McKeehan, now known as tobyMac, having had the most success.

While his driver’s license would indicate he’s over 40, if you listen to tobyMac’s new CD, Portable Sounds, you might think you’re listening to music made by someone in their twenties. It’s a blend of potent pop, rock, rap, and dance, as if Justin Timberlake, Kid Rock, and OutKast morphed into one skinny, blue-eyed bundle of stylishly dressed energy known as tobyMac.

When he’s not wakeboarding, running in a triathlon, or busy running Gotee Records, a label home to fellow artists like Family Force 5, GRITS, and John Reuben, tobyMac is touring to promote his latest project, which feels remarkably fresh and fun on tracks featuring various female divas (“One World,” “No Ordinary Love,” and “Lose My Soul”) while also sounding as if dc Talk never broke up on tracks like “Made To Love,” “All In,” and “Face of the Earth.”

TobyMac is unique because he sounds, acts, and dresses like a teenager in many ways, which endears him to lots of young kids, while most artists his age could never get away with wearing tight black shirts, camouflage cut-offs, and sandals.

The music on Portable Sounds does a great job reflecting his personal hip-hop-meets-rock style, alternating between danceable jams and loud, in-your-face rock, with some easy-going melodic pop songs thrown in for good measure.

Get the CD/DVD combo of Portable Sounds for a good price here.