- All Things Working
- Love Lifted Me
- The Blood Completes It All
- Complete
- Hail Mary
- Oh the Blood
- LaShun's Church Medley
- Xenia's Flight
- Close to You
- Thank You
LaShun Pace, an underrated gospel songstress, released the coolest, most elegant comeback album of 2005, the under-the-radar It's My Time. The album proved that there was so much more to the vocalist than simply melisma, praise shoutin', and church-floor stompers. The effort, especially its flagship single "For My Good," bore witness to her soulfulness, her finesse, and her impressive vocal command—which went from a quiet-storm whisper to an impassioned wail in a matter of seconds.
But It's My Time wasn't a gospel record in the strictest sense of the term. Despite its couple of traditional numbers, the disc was more modern and urban than anything else she'd done before, a detour from her traditional ways. After a lifetime of singing gospel music—she's one of the original Anointed Pace Sisters and a respected solo artist in her own right—the singer returns to form with Complete, her seventh album and second for EMI Gospel.
This is classic LaShun: a fervent black-gospel celebration from beginning to end. Your ears may perk up at the smooth R&B of the title track, the only notable diversion from this uninterrupted traditional gospel feast. That means the set is large on churchiness, charismatic zeal, choral involvement, and repetition—similar in vibe to the best of COGIC-styled gospel. This is not a bad thing in itself, but it does narrow the appeal of Complete to only those with a predilection for Sunday-morning bliss.
Pace gets testimonial here, relating how God saw her through the death of her daughter, a divorce, and a life-threatening illness. But her songs won't tell you this; you have to wait until the spoken-word "Xenia's Flight" to get the full scoop. That limits the lyrical scope of Complete to a number of generalities about God's faithfulness and protection—overall nothing too revealing, but exactly what longtime Pace fans have come to expect from the embattled yet triumphant gospel vocalist.