Long-running Christian pop ensemble
Hillsong United's 2015 effort,
Empires, features more of the group's uplifting praise & worship music. Once again featuring production from
Michael Guy Chislett (along with
Hillsong United vocalist
Joel Houston),
Empires follows the group's 2013 release
Zion. As with that album,
Empires finds
Hillsong United expanding their anthemic acoustic and electric rock sound with electronic and dance pop flourishes. Fittingly, for an album whose cover art was revealed via a rocket launch into space, the lead single off
Empires is titled "Touch the Sky." ~ Matt Collar