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EMI CMG/Worship Together lead worshipper, Tim Hughes, releases his critically acclaimed sophomore album, When Silence Falls, this week.

Releasing amidst wide critical acclaim, the album offers answers to some of the most difficult questions about worshipping through hard circumstances. Here is what some are saying.

"When Silence Falls, the second album from Tim Hughes, finds the British worship leader happily advancing toward postmodern rock territory…So subtle is the disc in its artistry that even at close to an hour of music, the end seems to come too soon — a sign that Hughes has succeeded in bringing his listeners somewhere special." - CCM

"Fast becoming one of the brighter lights in modern worship, Tim Hughes proves on When Silence Falls that he has the artistic integrity to transcend the limitations of the increasingly market-obsessed genre. That is good news for God's worshippers." - Worship Musician

"…When Silence Falls consolidates the young UK singer and songwriter's reputation as one of the most accessible and accomplished artists in the today's worship arena. Simply put, if you liked Here I Am To Worship you're going to love When Silence Falls." - Worship Leader Magazine

When Silence Falls was produced by Nathan Nockels of Watermark and mastered by Chris Blair at Abbey Road Studios. The album features the Prague Symphony Orchestra on "Consuming Fire," "Name Above All Names," "Whole World In His Hands" and "When The Tears Fall," performing string compositions and arrangements by Keith Getty.

The album also features Tim Hughes' song "Beautiful One," which is currently a Top 20 multi-format hit and climbing for Fervent Records' group By The Tree. The song lands this week at No. 17 and No. 20 on R & R's AC Indicator and CHR charts respectively, while also being named PDAdvisor's second and third highest advancer for CHR and AC respectively. "Beautiful One" is further No. 11 and climbing on CRW's AC and No. 15 on the CHR/POP chart.

In addition to By The Tree, Jeremy Camp recorded "Beautiful One" for his 2004 release as the song further captures No. 360 on the Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) U.S. chart and No. 144 on the Canadian chart, significant for a song that has not been released on an album until this year. CCLI is an organization that monitors the music played in churches across the US and various countries around the world.

At 26, Tim Hughes has already led worship for literally tens of thousands of youth across the globe for the past seven years while on staff with Soul Survivor, a youth mission that is sweeping the UK and most recently the U.S. with the purpose to mobilize young people to change the world, one community at a time. Soul Survivor holds eight gatherings in seven different countries per year with some events drawing as many as 22,000 attendees.

For more information regarding Tim Hughes, visit www.passionforyourname.com, www.timhughesmusic.com, or click here.

Brentwood, Tennessee-based EMI CMG Label Group is comprised of the Forefront, Sparrow and worshiptogether labels and is a division of the EMI Christian Music Group. EMI Christian Music Group is the world's largest Christian music organization and includes EMI CMG Distribution and EMI CMG Publishing in addition to EMI CMG Label Group. It is part of EMI Group, the world's largest independent music company whose other U.S. labels include Angel, Astralwerks, Blue Note, Capitol, Capitol Nashville, EMI Latin, Narada and Virgin Records.