Arguably one of the best and most underrated worship musicians in this country is Young Oceans, the creative moniker of New York City-based Eric James. Over the past decade, he has crafted some of the most luxuriant and absorbing worship songs and done so without little fanfare. And maybe that’s how he likes it.

His latest two efforts “Go With Me” and “Somehow” prove exactly why he’s an artist worth paying attention to. James is incredibly prolific but even he admits that “Go With Me” took him a while. He even went on record as saying: “The most exposed ideas are often the most challenging to express. it is a prayer which pleads only the bare minimum.” As for “Somehow” he says the song was inspired by Psalm 107.

On releasing both songs he quotes Matthew 24:11-14 and adds the following: “I sincerely hope these prayer songs might delight and inspire you today. It’s a tremendous joy to create them and to share them with whoever wants to listen.“

Whether you’re a Believer or not, in a divided world growing ever more polarized, these songs are a tonic, a balm, a salve, everything one needs to restore, decompress and ruminate. Hopefully they impact you as much as they have impacted me.

Happy listening!

P.S. If you want to stick to James’ secular output, head here. His band The Last Royals were criminally underrated and deserved a wider audience.