Reviewed by Mike Rimmer

What is 'The Edge Of Worship'? Is it a place where you almost get into worship? A twilight zone between worship and pop, or is it a place of edgy worship? The makers of this album perhaps would like you to believe the latter when in fact it's the former. This album lurks in the shadows where session players and session singers take popular songs, some worship and others devotional, and don't do anything particularly inventive with them. There are the usual pedestrian versions of a couple of Delirious? songs and a Matt Redman number without adding anything at all which is a little depressing actually. How have we come to this? If you're going to do covers, radically re-interpret them! But this is neither fish nor flesh. There are a few CCM tracks like Audio Adrenaline's "Hands And Feet", The Newsboys "I'm Not Ashamed" and dc Talk's "Consume Me" that pass by without really doing much. The version of Jennifer Knapp's "Undo Me" is popped up with some vocoder treated vocals and there is an acoustic-driven version of Newsboys' "Shine" with a female spoken vocal that just feels clumsy next to the original. Full marks for trying but err. NEXT! There are a couple of Third Day praise songs and a few other bits'n'bobs thrown into the pot but overall this feels like an ill conceived, annoying, pointless album.

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