Reviewed by Josh Dipple

In this age of festivals and subsequent live albums, a set of songs taking the Church by storm, seemingly all at the same time is, by now, a fairly familiar phenomenon. However, we sometimes miss the original artists' recordings of these newly proclaimed classics, so, maybe as a pre-emptive strike, Integrity Music has released a compilation of what it believes will be the next wave of worship anthems to be sung across the globe, in the forms that the artists intended. While the album ranges from the enormous, arena-filling sounds of Jesus Culture's "Awaken Me" and "Rooftops", to quirkier songs like The City Harmonic's "Manifesto", all the music represented here stay well within the usual country/pop-rock ilk that we have come to expect from our worship musicians - in fact tracks like Jared Anderson's "Great I Am" and Lincoln Brewster's "God You Reign" feel almost like a tribute to church standards from the last decade. This, though, may prove to be this selection of songs' greatest strength, as the relative simplicity of anthems like Gateway Worship's "O The Blood" and Daniel Bashta's powerful "Like A Lion" will surely help them to capture the attention of congregations around the world.

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A dynamic worship compilation featuring top worship leaders and features the best new worship songs impacting the global church.

15 songs including artists: Jesus Culture, Brenton Brown, The City Harmonic, Bethel Music, John Mark McMillan, Aaron Keyes, Kari Jobe, etc.

For worshippers of a slightly edgier sound whilst retaining a strong theological content.