Cory Asbury Returns To Worship With New Album ‘Outsing the Angels’
Cory Asbury Returns To Worship With New Album ‘Outsing the Angels.’ Cory Asbury has returned to the worship space with the release of his new 15-track album, Outsing the Angels, marking a significant new chapter for the GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter.
Released on September 18 through BEC Recordings, the album arrives after a lengthy period in which Cory Asbury stepped away from the worship music world following the global success of his hit song “Reckless Love.”
The project’s title track, released earlier this year, marked Cory Asbury’s first pure worship single in more than five years and offered an early glimpse into the direction of the new album. Built around the idea of ordinary believers lifting their voices in praise alongside the angels, the song captures the sense of freedom and abandon that runs throughout the project.
For Asbury, Outsing the Angels represents a return to a form of worship rooted in simplicity, passion and childlike faith. He has spoken openly about the disillusionment and spiritual exhaustion he experienced during his time away from the worship scene, as well as the tension he felt with the industry surrounding Christian music.
At one point, Asbury had moved in a completely different musical direction, coming close to finishing an entire country album. However, while working in the studio, he said he experienced a clear prompting from God that led him to reconsider the project. Conversations with fellow artist Forrest Frank also played a role in his decision to abandon that direction and return to worship.
The decision came with a significant cost, with Asbury returning the advance connected to the country project before redirecting his focus toward worship.
That journey ultimately shaped Outsing the Angels, an album centered on renewed devotion and a return to the kind of uninhibited faith Asbury associates with the early years of following Jesus.
Speaking about the title track, Asbury described its concept as a reminder of the almost fearless passion people can have when they are young in their faith. The idea of human beings attempting to join the worship of angels may seem impossible, he acknowledged, but for him it reflects the freedom to worship without worrying about how it looks or sounds.
The album builds on that theme across its 15 tracks. Alongside “Outsing the Angels,” the project features previously released songs including “Only Ever,” “Holy God,” “My Closest Friend” and “All Saints.”
The full tracklist also includes “Prodigal God,” “Blessed Be,” “Here Right Now,” “Hallelujah God Is Near,” “You Are,” “Nothing But Amazed,” “A Father’s Prayer,” “Faith of a Child,” “This World Is Not My Home” and “Glory’s Shore.”
Musically and thematically, the album moves between intimate expressions of faith and songs designed for collective worship, while maintaining a consistent focus on Jesus.
Asbury has summed up the heart of the project simply: “a song about Jesus. Not us. Him.”
That focus gives Outsing the Angels its central identity. Rather than presenting worship as a performance, the album points toward worship as a response, inviting listeners to approach God with the same openness, freedom and passion that defined Asbury’s earliest experiences of faith.
For an artist whose career has already been shaped by some of contemporary Christian music’s biggest worship songs, Outsing the Angels marks a return to familiar ground, but with the perspective gained from years away.
The album is now available on major streaming platforms.
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