Charlie Hall

The Bright Sadness
Sparrow Records

Modern worship? No, futuristic worship. This is worship for kids with hoverboards and holographic Bibles. This is worship music to make worship music fans of Coldplay and The Killers. It’s really quite extraordinary how Charlie Hall pours all of this in a worship-music mold but he does. With laser beams and buttery vocals and electric melodies and hooks and beats, he enunciates an age-old adoration and hunger for the God of heaven. It’s a great record. If you like the style of worship forged by Passion Conferences alums David Crowder Band, Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman, then you will like Hall, who is easily the most progressive of the lot. Incredibly catchy songs like Killers-esque disco track “Walk the World” will keep him that way for a good while. Twelve songs — standards, all of them. Just give them time.