WOW Worship Orange (2CD)

This two-disc compilation brings together some of the finest Christian-oriented artists in a veritable cavalcade of spiritual pop music. Listening to the Praise Band's "Rock of Ages," Kathryn Scott's "Hungry (Falling on my Knees)," and Sonic Flood's "In the Secret," the degree to which worship-based lyrics and secular musical formats are unselfconsciously combined is striking.

The artists included here venture into several distinct stylistic areas, including pop, rock, and country, but the lyrics, always centered around God, are obviously the common link here. If artists this disparate were in the secular field, it would be hard to imagine them all hanging around together (or included on the same compilation, for that matter). Under the banner of Christian music, though, it all makes a certain kind of sonic sense.