Hillsong Worship, one of the most established church-based praise and worship collectives, has a catalogue packed with live albums—one for nearly every year since 1992—and those recordings capture congregations fervently singing along.
The album, Awake was made differently: Hillsong’s leaders brought their songs into the studio. “The sound of Hillsong Worship is the sound of the church, primarily,” explains Brooke Ligertwood, who leads the group and co-produced the album. “You put on a record and you can hear our church singing. Before we entered this process, we had to ask ourselves some questions: What's the sound of our community when you take it out of that live context?” Many of the arrangements build towards anthemic pop-rock catharsis, progressing from hushed single-voice intros to billowing guitars, keyboards and choral harmonies and churning tom-tom patterns, all treated with reverb and ambient effects that give the tracks an immersive quality. Here Ligertwood goes through each of the album’s 12 tracks.
Come Alive
“There's a really famous scripture in Ezekiel 37 about dry bones coming to life and the prophet praying over these dry bones and them standing up and getting flesh and tendons on them and then becoming people. That scripture has been written about in so many songs and sermons, but I think what [songwriters] Ben Hastings and Scott Ligertwood and Michael Fatkin did with this particular interpretation of that scripture was coming at it from a really fresh angle. It's a song that commands something inside you to come alive and to command the dry places to rise up and flourish once again.”
Come Alive
“There's a really famous scripture in Ezekiel 37 about dry bones coming to life and the prophet praying over these dry bones and them standing up and getting flesh and tendons on them and then becoming people. That scripture has been written about in so many songs and sermons, but I think what [songwriters] Ben Hastings and Scott Ligertwood and Michael Fatkin did with this particular interpretation of that scripture was coming at it from a really fresh angle. It's a song that commands something inside you to come alive and to command the dry places to rise up and flourish once again.”
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