Reviewed by Trevor Kirk

This latest live offering from the young lions and lionesses at Hillsong Church (formerly known as Hills Christian Life Centre), Sydney, Australia, is subtitled 'Radical Worship'. The only problem I have with that cool title is that recent offerings from both the kids and the grown-ups at Hillsongs have shown a tendency to formulaic ruts rather than radical grooves, and whilst I don't doubt that everyone got blessed to bits when this was recorded, it doesn't come over to this listener in the way that it does on a recording from, say, Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship. Nearly everything is at several million decibels, the girl singers all sound like Darlene and the material is all much of a muchness; not only that, the hooting and the hollering reminded me of a Gaither Homecoming Friends concert and any sense of worship was lost in amongst all the noise. Not a rewarding listen.

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