Reviewed by Lins Honeyman

The latest album by revered worship artist Matt Redman sees the Watford-born songsmith bring in a number of guest artists to help communicate his love for God with cameos from the likes of Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Kierra Sheard, Kim Walker-Smith and even a 120-strong choir peppering proceedings. Whilst these appearances (including a rapped section courtesy of Guvna B on the strangely non-gospel sounding "Gospel Song") help add some variety, this is default Redman fare with mostly mid-tempo songs charting the personal side of having a relationship with God - delivered in trademark half whispered/half sung fashion - dominating the release. A gospel choir adorns the opener "All Glory" and things get things off to a relatively stirring start before the likes of "Greatest Hallelujah" and "Redemption Ground" sees Redman back in more familiar territory. All this makes for a somewhat pedestrian affair and, whilst a new Matt Redman album is always to be welcomed and there's some useful content about hope, trust and dealing with pain for the believer to draw inspiration from, there's little melodically or thematically that we've not heard before. Perhaps going for a more stylistically varied approach as briefly evidenced in the delightfully '80s-tinged "Still I Will Sing" or a more prominent use of the choir other than just congregational singing would have helped make this release stand out more.

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