Out Of The Ordinary

Out Of The Ordinary by Graham Kendrick was published by Furious Music in November 2006 and is our 6279th best seller. The ISBN for Out Of The Ordinary is MWD15.

Graham Kendrick keeps on pushing the boundaries, returning with one of his most remarkable recordings to date. The album’s title - ‘Out of the Ordinary’ – hints at the direction taken by the ten songs; awed worship of God, inspired insight into the nature of faith, fresh revelation of God’s grace, mercy and majesty. Exploding our misconceptions that limit our understanding of God, ‘Out of the Ordinary’ is one of those musical manifestos that marks a bright new dawn for contemporary worship.

Across songs such as ‘Beautiful Mystery’, ‘What Can I Do?’ ‘All Creation Is A Song’ and ‘I Love Your Name’ Graham revisits eternal themes of creation, unity and the multi-facets of God, but does so with lyrics that are corporate yet never stale, personal yet never sentimental.

The album carries on in the tradition of his previous two studio albums ‘What Grace’ and ‘Do Something Beautiful’. This time around songs have been co-written with some of todays leading worship writers: Martin Smith, Stu Garrard, Matt Redman, Tim Hughes and Paul Baloche.

Producer Julian Kindred (the man behind Delirious?’s ‘World Service’) can be clearly spotted across the album’s ten tracks. Musical arrangements are carefully crafted to back up the emotional range of Graham’s lyrics, while his vocals are delivered with a degree of intensity and sensitivity never quite heard before. Complacency and safety clearly had no place in the studio: on this album Graham has never sounded so good.

Thematically ‘Out of the Ordinary’ draws deep and, according Graham “several of the songs are story based much like 'Thorns in the Straw' or 'Peter at the Breaking of the Bread' rather than straight 'congregational' songs.

A Cruicified Man
All Creation Is A Song
Beautiful Mystery
What Can I Do
God Above
Great Are Your Works
Honour The Lord
Language Of Angels
Only You Deserve The Praise
The Way Is Open