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.
Dawn
“That's a spontaneous instrumental that happened when we went in to run the song ‘Awake My Soul’ for the first time. There’s a rustling texture that you can hear that starts to come in about halfway through that’s actually the sound of praying. So, we had a bunch of our worship leaders come into a room and actually pray for the people who would listen to the album—pray for churches, pray for pastors, pray for refugees, pray for the suffering, pray for single parents, pray for the sick. I love the thought that when people first put on this album, whether they know it or not or can hear it or not, they're actually being prayed for.”
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