- Lord, Come
- Who Am I?
- Eternity
- Every Tribe
- You Said
- More of You, Lord
- My Dreams Are of You
- Reflection
- Sand
- Holy Is the Lord
- The Old Rugged Cross
We'd dedicate more space to talk about Matt McGee's worship debut, except we've already done so as a featured emerging independent artist last year. Now he's signed a partnership with Crowne Music Group to distribute it on the national level, and hopefully that's more incentive to check out this guy's rich acoustic-pop worship style, similar to Shane Barnard & Shane Everett, Andrew Peterson, and Caedmon's Call.
Originally intended as a collection of worship songs for college students to use in their quiet time, McGee accomplished that much and more with
Sure, the production quality and inventive lyrics could be better, but this is a very good start for McGee. A lot of worship albums unfortunately require you to be in the mood; if your heart isn't prepared for it, it can quickly become stale and repetitive background noise. This one, however, connects with listeners effortlessly, drawing them into worship on its own merits, in spite of mood. That's no small feat, and the sign of an effective worship recording.