Reviewed by Lins Honeyman

This Spring Harvest release contains 24 stripped back acoustic versions of worship songs from the last five years. Featuring, amongst others, the likes of Andreana Arganda, Cathy Burton and Jim Bailey on vocal duties, this is a pleasant enough outing for songs such as Tim Hughes' "Be My Everything", Vicky Beeching's "The Wonder Of The Cross" and the Matt Redman/Paul Baloche collaboration "A Greater Song". Largely due to the fact that the instrumentation on this collection consists of little more than a couple of acoustic guitars and a piano, proceedings do become somewhat staid after a while and, despite a raft of good songs, this release is let down by unimaginative production and performances that lack the passion of the fuller sounding originals. Nonetheless, these less cluttered versions of what are essentially fresh songs will be of interest to smaller church worship groups as well as being a means of enhancing personal quiet times.

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