Guaranteed (Phatfish album)

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Guaranteed is the 2007 studio album from Phatfish. It features the vocals of Lou Fellingham, and consists of 10 new tracks written by various members of the band, but mainly Nathan Fellingham and Michael Sandeman.

The album recieved a positive response, with Cross Rhythms website giving it 10/10 in it's review and the album peaking at number 4 on the sales charts. The track's "Amazing God" and "Best Thing" were chosen for radio airplay, with the latter reaching Number 1 and staying there for 9 weeks. The track was the 13th most played song of the year for Cross Rhythm's Radio for 2007.

American website Christianity Today gave the album 4/5 stars, with various other critics, Christian music reviewers and online shops rating the album well. The album was chosen as CD of the month in august 2007 for Wesley Owen, an online website and chain of Christian shops based in the UK. It also reached top of the contemporary charts for the website.

The track "Amazing God" was chosen as Kingsway Song's song of the month for July 2007, offering sheet music and an audio download of Nathan Fellingham describing the song for free. "Amazing God" was also offered as a download for Phatfish newsletter subscribers before the release of the album, along with the band's website recieving a new colour scheme and entrance page to coincide with the release of Guaranteed.

To follow-up the release of the album Phatfish did not embark on an official Guaranteed Tour, rather opted to play one off gig dates in Newark at Newday, Aberdeen at Souled Out, Cheltenham at the Cheltenham Bible Conference, and in Wrexham and Brighton. They also supported the worship leader Stuart Townend on a second night in Wrexham and a second night in Cheltenham. The band played another gig at Soul By The Sea in Brighton in January 2008, and are due to perform again in Gloucester on 14th March.

Two songs from the album, "Pouring Out" and "Amazing God" have started to appear on live worship albums and were sung at the Newday, Together On A Mission and Mission:Worship conferences in 2007, which Phatfish attended. All recent gig appearances have been titled Phatfish and Lou Fellingham, where the band play songs from Guaranteed with tracks from Lou Fellingham's Treasure, and some older songs from previous albums.

The release of the album was followed up with a TV appearance on Premier TV.

Tracklisting

1. "Pouring Out"
2. "I Am Yours"
3. "Amazing God"
4. "Best Thing"
5. "Who Else Could I Run To?"
6. "Holy Spirit"
7. "This Year"
8. "Rise Up"
9. "Come And Behold"
10. "From The Rising Of The Sun"