Reviewed by Tim Holden

Velocity is an ongoing American music project designed to bring ministry focused independent artists to the mainstream market through touring, promotions and this album. The album brings together a mixture of worship songs - from the likes of Christopher Williams, Ten Avenue North and Among Thorns - and performance songs. While all the songs show a maturity of songwriting and musicianship and a real passion for what they are communicating, it is the performance songs, both rock bands and singer/songwriters, that stand out. Notable are "Breakaway" by Ronnie Freeman and "Tanzania" by Alli Rogers, a well crafted folk song looking forward to life in Heaven after the toil of life on Earth. Rock gets a good look in too with the Vapour's anthem "Dying To Myself" and the full on rock worship of "The Wonderful" by Spur58 . Worth getting hold of in its own right, it also gives some good ideas of which artists to follow up on.

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