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I have a confession to make: I love Charlie Hall. He’s one of the few popular worship leaders I can listen to, and thoroughly enjoy at length. His new album released on Monday, and I swiped it up pretty quickly. Here’s a few notes:

• It’s awesome. I thought it would be hard to top Flying Into Daybreak, but he did it. God is definitely who he worships. You can tell from the passion (excuse the reference) in the songs. Even the more muted songs (Mystery, You Are God) are passionately devoted to Jesus.
• Harmony: get used to Mystery. It’s a great communion song, celebrating the life, death, resurrection, and second coming of our King.
• Chainbreaker is sweet, with some awesome guitar riffs.
• For some reason, there is repeated reference to “bread and wine” throughout the album. Maybe Hall was hungry when he was writing songs…
• The Second Alive is an exciting romp through new birth, with high-intensity guitar and vocals. Great stuff.
• Thrill is sweet. And it thankfully brings a new word into our “devotion/desire/passion” category of vocabulary.
• Scenes reflects Romans 1, that God has written into creation the Gospel. Great lyrics, beautiful message from Scripture.

Rating: 9/10 (Still listening to it, may change later)

Pick it up now.