Reviewed by Ian Hayter

Albums like this turn up with alarming regularity and while I was listening to this one for the second or third time, I found myself asking who on earth buys this stuff other than the close families of the children involved. What we have here is a selection of twenty well-known worship songs written between 1984 (John Sellers' 'Come Into The Holy Of Holies') and 2002 ('Never Forget There is Hope' by Andrews, Greer and Simmons) pulled from a batch of pretty anonymous Integrity Kids albums, many featuring the usual teeth-grating kids choir. The backing instrumentation is pretty good (there are no credits other than for Executive Producers Don Moen and Chris Thomason), and for the first few seconds of listening I thought we were on to a winner - then the children's voices began. It doesn't really work for most of these songs, and there is a spectacularly awful version of 'Ain't No Rock', which just does not lend itself to pre-teen warbling. I don't think adults are likely to enjoy it (other than the aforementioned close family) and, if the children in my house are anything to go by, it will be ridiculed by kids themselves.

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