Send Me by Echo The Light moves worship music into a transcendentally spiritual sphere, progressively building from a roots-deep, Enya-esque folk initiation into a progressive pop-rock outburst of visceral emotion. Created from a shared history of musical service and worship-leading experience, Echo The Light carry their mission into the single with clear devotional force: to draw listeners towards God’s love and presence while keeping the release alive with communal strength.
The vocals tear through the 80s-esque atmosphere conjured by the synths and percussion, bursting beyond the volition of even the strongest power ballads. Send Me is a siren call to anyone searching for gospel that reaches beyond honeyed hymns of softened reverence. The storm-lifted, chest-open sensibility of Send Me is enough to send shivers through your soul.
The force of the performance never resorts to theatrics as the arrangement expands until it becomes an all-consuming pop-rock ascent that makes artists like Florence and the Machine feel positively ambient. Enya’s sacred-cinematic calm sits somewhere in the single’s early glow, but Echo The Light soon push the track into a more muscular act of worship.
Using faith as a sense of fortitude, Send Me becomes the ultimate aural suit of armour against adversity; it’s worship music for anyone who needs devotion to feel protective, not passive, and heavenly without losing its human fire.
Send Me is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.
Review by Amelia Vandergast