Emu Music are an Australian collection of Christian musicians committed to putting the themes of God’s Word to good music. I first came across their work in the mid-2000s while leading the music teams for the then-nascent scots@seven evening service church-plant at The Scots’ Church in Melbourne.
Emu Music’s You Alone is a live recording from 2002 that contains some classic Aussie Christian church music, and marked my realisation that there were actually-talented Aussie Christian songwriters who cared as much about the words sung as I did. So much of my thinking about the place of music in life and in the church stems from the work they did (and are still doing) writing songs and running conferences. I thank God for their ministry.
While I suspect there aren’t many who would know about this album, let alone rate it as formative, I can’t build a list of ten without it being included.
