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February 12, 2012

Home > Music > Reviews > 2010
Passion
Awakening (sixsteps)
Our Rating3 Stars - Good
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Style: Modern corporate-style worship; compare to Hillsong United, Chris Tomlin

Top tracks: "Awakening," "Healing Is in Your Hands," "King of Heaven (Isaiah 61)"

Since Passion's 1997 launch, hundreds of thousands of college students have convened at their various worship conferences. Each year the weekend's musical portion, arguably the events' most potent outcome, is taped, producing a string of best-selling recordings and propelling perennial participants like Chris Tomlin into international notoriety. This latest edition again captures the kinetic "live" experience, excellently exampling the talents of each worship-oriented artist and introducing yet another set of soon-to-be church anthems. And though including commercial newcomers like FEE may pique marketing interests and question the recording's intent, if you're looking for just one record to complement your worship drive time, this is certainly it.




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[Reader Reviews]

Displaying 1–3 of 5 comments

Daniel Petterson

March 18, 2010  9:44am

Why are you folks posting 1-star reviews? It's supposed to be your rating of the ALBUM, not the REVIEW of the album! If people see it getting 3 stars from the reviewer and (before mine) 2 stars from readers, why would they want to buy it? Anyway - favorite songs are "Awakening," "How He Loves," "Like a Lion," "Rise and Sing," and "With Everything." I bought the deluxe edition on Amazon.com (for 5 bucks cheaper than iTunes, by the way), and was happy for the inclusion of "A Mighty Fortress." All-in-all, I'm very happy with this one.

Drew Downey

March 15, 2010  3:48pm

I second the last two comments. This is an incredible album full with the spirit of the Lord. To question the inclusion of Fee on the Album is ridiculous considering Steve Fee has been leading worship with Passion Conferences, North Point Church, and Big Stuf camps for more than ten years. I would hardly say that is "including commercial newcomers"? But like I said, phenomenal album. I would recommend it to anyone.

Chris Snow

March 10, 2010  7:47pm

The whole album's great, even the bonus tracks on iTunes. I especially like Matt Redman's "You Alone Can Rescue." Agreed with other reviewers that Fee has been around, although I would say that having Hillsong's "Everything" was done to boost sales. I love Hillsong and the track, and I've always seen Hillsong and Passion as two separate monster worship bands/events so to have a repeat song that's already been sung by Joel (with a first verse that you can tell no one's singing along to) is really unnecessary. Also, Charlie Hall used to write staple songs for the church, but his songs on the last couple Passion albums have not caught on as much so it's good to see Fee more on the record. The strongest tracks on the record are Chris Tomlin's, especially "Our God," which is bound to be a staple in churches. David Crowder does a stellar job with "How He Loves," but his new song "Like a Lion" has one line repeated 4 times over the chorus, which got old for me fast.

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