Main Review
With sales exceeding five million, worship label sixstepsrecords, home to Chris Tomlin, David Crowder* Band, Charlie
Hall, Matt Redman, and Passion, announces its first new artist signing since the label’s inception in 2000. Worship
leader Kristian Stanfill will join the sixstepsrecords family, releasing his label debut, Attention, April 21, 2009. After
graduating college in 2002, Kristian started leading worship at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, GA, also the
church home of Dove Award nominated new artist Fee. In 2005, Kristian became actively involved with the Passion
movement, first leading a community group at Passion ‘05, a conference for university students, then as a lead
worshipper at Passion ‘06. He has also been featured on multiple Passion recorded projects including Passion:
Everything Glorious (2006), with his song “Jesus Paid It All” and Passion: God of This City (2008), with his song “Beautiful
Jesus”.
“I’ve had the opportunity to lead worship at North Point for more than seven years,” Kristian says. “There are some
amazing worship leaders there, and just to have the opportunity to observe the way they lead people into the presence of
God has been like attending seminary.
Kristian Stanfill’s album Attention is an eleven-song collection of rock worship anthems, ballads and reverential hymns.
The album starts off with two songs that are both calls to worship, “Alive and Running” and “Kingdom”, which reminded
me of Fee’s “We Shine” and “All Because Of Jesus”. My favorite section of the album comes next with “Lord of All”, “Go”
and hymn-like song “Beautiful Jesus”, originally on Passion: God of This City. “Go” and “Beautiful Jesus” are both great
corporate worship songs that I can imagine singing with fellow believers. Actually, we sang Kristian’s “Jesus Paid It All”
at my church on Good Friday and many of these songs have that same sincere worship style.
“Faithful”, “Glowing” and “Lead Us On” are joyful, encouraging corporate worship songs. This is a very biblical worship
album. Every song has bible verses listed and the messages are reflective and uplifting. Similar to Fee’s album We
Shine, I found myself relating to the songs right away and enjoyed singing along in worship.
Closing Thoughts
The top songs for me are “Kingdom”, “Go”, “Beautiful Jesus”, “Faithful”, “Glowing” and “Lead Us On”. If you like worship
artists Fee, Charlie Hall, Chris Tomlin and Tim Hughes, you’ll enjoy Kristian Stanfill.
Review Written By: Kevin Davis [kevin.davis@christianmusicreview.org] on 4/12/2009
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