Gospel and Worship, Music With Its Hands Up

Gospel is one of the oldest engines in modern music, the place so much of soul, R&B and even pop learned to sing. At its best it does something few genres attempt: it aims straight for the spirit and trusts the song to carry the weight.

More than a Sunday sound

Contemporary gospel has quietly become one of the most adventurous spaces in African and diaspora music, folding in highlife guitars, amapiano grooves and full live-band arrangements without losing its centre. The production is ambitious and the choirs still raise the roof.

Songs built to last

Worship records age differently from hits. A chorus that lands in a congregation on a hard week can outlive a chart run by decades. That is why the best of this music gets passed hand to hand, generation to generation.

New praise and worship releases gather here as they arrive, for the car, the kitchen and the quiet moments.