Reviewed by Paul Kerslake

So Kingsway's Survivor label is winding up, and this budget-line compilation celebrates and highlights the success and diversity of the label's roster over the past 15 years. Featuring tracks from Tim Hughes to Brenton Brown, Vicky Beeching to Paul Oakley, Matt Redman to Delirious?, the track list goes on and on. So why stop something that is so successful? Well, the Survivor label was set up for the future of worship, and over the course of 15 years, the artists on the label have become the present sound of worship. As label manager Adrian Thompson says, the future's looking good: "Survivor was always under the umbrella of Kingsway and the ethos of giving a new generation of worshippers their own voice has not changed. As Kingsway we are firmly committed to resourcing worshippers with songs and sounds that allow each generation to worship. We see ourselves as a family or community of worshippers that is now serving the wider Church and our commitment to our writers and worship leaders is unwavering. As the Survivor generation is growing up we still have a platform that will enable them to reach their relevant generation." I would imagine that many worshippers will already have many of these recordings in their collections. But as a reminder of the Survivor story this highlights much that is truly excellent in modern worship music.

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It is hard to believe that fifteen years have passed since the launch of the Survivor label. Yet the project which started to support the baby steps of an emerging UK worship scene grew every bit as loud, as strong and as influential as the artists it worked with.

From Matt Redman to Brenton Brown, Tim Hughes to Onehundredhours, Yfriday to Tree63 as well as Ben Cantelon, Vicky Beeching, Lex Buckley, Eoghan Heaslip, Martyn Layzell and many more, Survivor was a label that worked hard to serve those that served the church.

This album celebrates the very best of those releases, with songs that shaped and stretched the church, colliding to spur on a generation to a greater, bolder faith in God.