Worship Musician February 2019 | Page 48

NEW MUSIC NOW HEAR THIS | Gerod Bass PASSION COREY VOSS & MADISON STREET WORSHIP Follow You Anywhere Songs of The House Sean Curran’s wispy yet soulful vocals set the stage on the opening track “Welcome the Healer” which could definitely be a crowd- pleasing approach into welcoming the Holy Spirit into your time of worship while “Behold the Lamb” is a creative journey from foot of the cross to the day of resurrection victory and ultimately culminates in the eternal victory we have in Christ. Singing with enthusiasm and conviction Kristian Stanfill’s performance of the title track is worth mentioning especially since it lyrically focuses 1. Welcome the Healer on the importance of ongoing discipleship in our 2. Lift Up Jesus faith journey which is so often overshadowed in 1. 3. Behold the Lamb modern worship music. 2. Liberator 4. Follow You Anywhere Praise Your Name 3. Across the Earth 5. Fade Away The team's sole female vocalist Melodie 4. Holy Places 6. Hundred Miles Malone does an exceptional job on her two 5. Found Your Love 7. More to Come power ballads: "Fade Away" (which features 6. More Than Anything 8. Bigger Than I Thought a surprising chorus of “Turn Your Eyes Upon 7. 9. It Is Finished Jesus”) and "It's Finished” and although she is 8. Lay Me Down 10. Yet I Will Praise You no Christy Nockles, Malone’s performance is 9. We’ve Won powerful and honest. 10. We Come Obviously, Crowder tackles the more folkish Tennessee based Worship pastor Corey Voss, One of the yearly staples of live worship releases each and every year is the annual Passion Conference that has been releasing new music for the church since 1997 when Louie Giglio teamed up with a then young newcomer to the worship scene named Chris Tomlin. The 2019 conference included 40,000 attendees gathered at four different sites with the main event held in Atlanta. Follow You Anywhere is a collection of the best songs from that gathering featuring the current leadership team of Kristian Stanfill, Brett Younker, Crowder, Sean Curran, and Melodie Malone. While most of the album is comprised of what entries, namely "Yet Will I Praise You" and "100 Miles” adding his unique brand of lyrical prowess and musical ingenuity that breaks up the sometimes musical monotony of tracks as We Know There’s More introduces his church creative team, Madison Street Worship, with the appropriately titled Songs of The House which features ten new songs of modern worship that is Sunday you get later in the album. morning ready. Combining themes of belonging, I really enjoyed a lot of the songs from this The House follows Songs of Heaven & Earth, family, healing and freedom in Christ, Songs of particular Passion album as I found the writing creative and mostly spot-on theologically and even though there is were no huge breakthroughs musically here, fans of the Passion series will love this one. the full-length album debut from Voss. The arrangements are smart and appropriate throughout this collection and the mix is spot on. As a listener I was transported inside their worship space with the sounds of true we have come to expect from the Passion corporate worship complete with shouts of joy conferences, there are a lot of really great and voices united in glorious praise. songs here that are ready for Sunday morning. 48 February 2019 Subscribe for Free...