Reviewed by Andrew Coe

This collection aims to collect some of the best songs from the numerous worship festivals and collate them together on a double CD album. The tracks are taken from the albums of the respective festivals, so represented here are Spring Harvest, Soul Survivor, New Day Keswick and others. There are also some live tracks taken from albums by Trent and California's Jesus Culture. The live tracks give a real sense of the atmosphere of being at a large event, and blend together really well, so that you wouldn't really know they were taken from different celebrations and different albums. There is a good mixture of new and old, with seasoned favourites such as Tim Hughes, Matt Redman and Stuart Townend but also some lesser well known worship leaders like Pete Norman and Helen Gallagher. The best of the new comes in the form of "Courage" by Tim Hughes and "Beautiful News" by Matt Redman. The older generation will find something to enjoy as well though, as there are renditions of "There Is A Redeemer", "Amazing Grace" and "All Creatures Of Our God And King", again all of which fit together really well, and continue to give the real live sense of being among the thousands of voices singing together.

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Thousands of voices, nine festivals, 30 songs, one sound.....the sound of worship!

An anthem is a song of devotion...a song of praise. This 2 CD compilation features the best of those from the biggest UK events, including Spring Harvest, New Wine, New Day and Soul Survivor. It captures the energy of praise to Almighty God as well as deeper moments of intimacy and heart-felt expression. Songs that are Christ-centred, and God-loving; songs to awaken the spirit and songs that re-imagine the future - led by a host of the world's top worship leaders and recorded in our Big Tops and Main Tents with thousands of worshippers united in song.