Reviewed by Stella Redburn

This album is so competent it's hard to fault it. The record company has assembled a high class group of a dozen singers, three accomplished brass players and, almost inevitably for a Christian recording from the Nashville neck of the woods, the String Machine, producing their usual gorgeous washes of sound. It's all very professional and efficient and 25 tracks is certainly good value for money. Of course, being a small group, you have to be content with the rather intimate atmosphere but the bonus of that is the great accuracy they manage to achieve. Considering it's called 25 Favourite Hymns I was a bit put out to find no less than seven tunes I didn't know - maybe they're better known Stateside. Although it's pleasant listening I did find it a bit clinical - all done to a formula and I would gladly have swapped a percentage of the glossy perfection for more glimpses of heaven

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