Album Of The Day: Let There Be Wonder by Matt Redman

Album Art of Matt Redman's Let There Be Wonder album - On a dark blue background, an illustration of what looks like a fingerprint is in the middle. Upon closer inspection, it is a graphic where the top part looks somewhat like a fingerprint printed in gold, with mostly horizontal lines. We can see that a bit below the center these gold lines do circle, making it out to be a sky of gold with the sun just over the horizon. And below the sun, large ocean waves of blue and gold are crashing. At the top, in white handwritten-style font is the artist name, and in smaller sans-serif letters at the bottom is the album title.

Matt Redman is still one of the best songwriters of modern church music, and this is one of his most recent albums of his, released just over 5 years ago. I read an article recently which claimed that Matt Redman's earlier works were great for congregational praise and worship and that in the last 10 years or so he's lost some of that, making the more complex, less sing-able styles of the mega-church/arena pop/rock that is most popular in Christian Music today, and that might be a fair criticism. But I still think he is one of the best songwriters and that these songs can still be sung by congregations—I've heard songs from this album played by local worship bands and sung along with by congregations. Matt Redman does better than many other church groups on making sure that there's scripturally-based, theologically-sound lyrics and writes beautiful melodies to go with them. I think this is a good addition to his over 30 years of songwriting and recording. Some of my favorites here are "All Praise (Sing Praise)", "The Same Jesus", and "Jesus Your Name".

Release Year: 2020
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