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Where I Find You
By EXW Staff - Music Reviews - Feb 01, 2012
 One of the best-selling artists in Christian music, Kari Jobe releases her sophomore album, Where I Find You, today amidst widespread acclaim. The album quickly rose this morning to No. 1 on the iTunes® overall Albums chart and remains No. 1 on the Christian & Gospel chart amidst 5-star reviews. The recording also sparked the Billboard Top 10 hit single “We Are” that has been viewed nearly 500,000 times at www.youtube.com/watch?v=B07iK9uh9qY. Tens of thousands more have experienced Jobe singing “We Are” and other new favorites live in concert during the record-breaki...read more

Homemade Worship By Handmade People
By EXW Staff - Music Reviews - Jan 30, 2012

 Internationally acclaimed Rend Collective Experiment releases its sophomore album, Homemade Worship By Handmade People, today on Kingsway with global distribution and amidst five-star reviews. The album was recorded and produced by Rend Collective in Irish church halls and homes in the band’s organic, collective style and fusing a depth of sung theology and fresh melodies that reflect themes of redemption, devotion and celebration. A movement of 20-somethings that began in Ireland and spread across Europe before hitting the Americas, Rend Collective Experiment’s j...read more

Awakening
By EXW Staff - Music Reviews - Jan 19, 2012

 Jesus Culture Awakening: Live From Chicago, the sixth new full-length recording from Jesus Culture, released last week amidst acclaim on Kingsway with EMI CMG Distribution in the US. Recorded live in Chicago’s Allstate Arena at Jesus Culture’s Awakening 2011 conference Aug. 3-5, 2011, this double-CD quickly shot to the top of “Praise & Worship” sales chart, and sold nearly 12,000 copies in its debut week at retail. The album further spent all week on top of the iTunes® “Christian/Gospel” chart, while initially entering at No. 26 before climbing by last Friday to No. 2...read more

The Loft Sessions
By EXW Staff - Music Reviews - Jan 12, 2012

 Bethel Music releases its all-new, full-length recording, The Loft Sessions, Jan. 24, 2012 as a special CD/DVD Digipak combo with global distribution through Kingsway. Recorded live in a refurbished rustic loft, the Bethel Music team gathered friends and family for several nights of worship that set the stage for this ground-breaking recording. The Loft Sessions explores new territory for Bethel Music, merging an array of acoustic creativity with the modern melodies of original songs by Brian and Jenn Johnson, Jeremy Riddle and emerging artists Steffany Frizzell, Hun...read more

Hymns & Sacred Songs
By EXW Staff - Music Reviews - Dec 07, 2011

 Leigh Nash, perhaps best known as the dynamic, angelic-voiced lead singer of platinum-selling pop group Sixpence None the Richer, now offers her favorite, newly recorded Hymns & Sacred Songs Nov. 15 from Kingsway with EMI CMG Distribution in the US. The first of three new albums from Nash on Kingsway, these songs are a combination of fresh, newly written hymns alongside songs that have reverberated across generations, giving a voice to the faithful around the world. The timeless lyrics of hymns by Charles Wesley, Fanny Crosby and other writers of old, have been given...read more

Where I Find You
By EXW Staff - Music Reviews - Dec 01, 2011

 One of the best-selling artists in Christian music since her self-titled debut album released in 2009, Kari Jobe returns with Where I Find You Jan. 24, 2012. This will be Jobe’s first album with Sparrow Records, a division of EMI CMG Label Group, which will distribute the album from the two-time Dove Award winning, Gateway Church (Southlake, TX) worship leader into worldwide markets. Produced by Ed Cash (Chris Tomlin, Chris August), who also produced her breakout self-titled debut, and acclaimed producer Matt Bronleewe (Natalie Imbruglia, Josh Wilson), Where I Fin...read more

Come Away
By EXW Staff - Music Reviews - Dec 01, 2011

 An amazing worship project from Jesus Culture that is passionate and will cause your church to rethink what it means to" worship God with all your heart", this CD rocks! These guys are talented and know how to keep the music relevant and edgy and yet worshipful. You will not be disappointed with this CD. Songs include: Come Away Rooftops You Are My Passion I Want To Know You My Heart Longs For You Freedom Reigns Let It Rain Mighty Breath Of God Show Me Your Glory One Thing Remains Check out their other CD's at their website. Click on the link below...read more

The Real Life
By EXW Staff - Music Reviews - Nov 08, 2011

 Real Life, the seventh solo recording from Integrity/Columbia Music singer/songwriter and worship leader Lincoln Brewster, debuted at #1 on Nielsen SoundScan's Praise & Worship Albums chart and at #3 on Billboard’s Christian Albums chart, following its September 28 release. Landing at #61 on the Billboard 200, which reflects the top-selling albums across all genres, Real Life is Brewster’s most personal project to date and is garnering widespread critical acclaim. Giving the album four stars, ChristianityToday.com says, “Brewster pumps up the guitar solos and sings ...read more

Set Free
By EXW Staff - Music Reviews - Oct 14, 2011

 Just released from Daystar is a wonderful collection of worship music that is sure bless your congregation in your corporate worship settings as well as your personal worship times with the Lord. In the classic high energy high quality worship that Daystar is known for, this CD steps it up a notch. The theme of "set free" runs throughout this project in both upbeat easy to sing songs to slower reflective pieces that will move you to greater worship. If you would like to add this CD to your worship library, please click on the link below. You will not be disap...read more

Be Lifted High
By EXW Staff - Music Reviews - Oct 11, 2011

 An awesome worship project from Bethel music is one that you will surely want for your private worship collection and to use in your church. The songs are amazing and useable in a corporate setting and the passion that is poured into the arrangements are clearly inspired by the Spirit. This is a representation of the church to come for a new generation. We love what these guys are doing and highly recommend this project to all our viewers. I especially love the rebirth of I Exalt Thee. It is powerful and creative. One Thing Remains is still my favorite but th...read more


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