If you’re over white guys auditioning to be in U2 while playing really emotive contemporary worship, here is your kryptonite. Passion, the American university student worship movement, have honed that style to a sharp point.

Kristian Stanfill proves that point with the opening track, Not Ashamed. It’s easy to sing, catchy and altogether a gleaming pop-rock nugget (it even has a call and response “Hey! Hey!” part). It’s a very well written song, though the theological content isn’t going to be challenging hymns anytime soon.

And that’s White Flag in a nutshell. It’s more of the same, most of it well-constructed and very much coloured within the lines. There are occasional missteps (the title track takes a really awful lyrical idea and ties it to the most vanilla worship soundtrack you could imagine), but you could still mine this album for a few good tracks to add to your contemporary worship service. Whether you’ll do that, of course, depends on whether you are tired of this style of worship music or not. And if you are, you wouldn’t be the only one.

Three stars out of five