Hillsong Young & Free on New Live Album 'Youth Revival': 'The Focus Is on the Message'

Hillsong Young and Free photographed in 2016.

Hillsong Young & Free -- the millennial-targeted spinoff of the popular Christian group Hillsong United -- just releasedYouth Revival, the group's second full album. Like the original Hillsong, Hillsong Y&F is based in Sydney, Australia, at Hillsong Church.

Hillsong Young & Free

Hillsong Young & Free, also known as Hillsong Y&F, is an Australian Christian music praise & worship group from Sydney, Australia, where they started making music in 2012, at Hillsong Church. They have released two live albums, We Are Young & Free (2013) and Youth Revival (2016), with two extended plays, This Is Living (2015) and The Remixes (2015).

Hillsong Worship

Hillsong Worship (formerly Hillsong Live) is an Australian Christian music praise & worship group from Sydney, Australia, where they started making music in 1983, at Hillsong Church. Twelve have charted on the Billboard magazine charts in the US. The band has some notable members, including Darlene Zschech, Marty Sampson, Brooke Fraser, Reuben Morgan, and Joel Houston.

Hillsong United

The Hillsong United band (stylised as Hillsong UNITED or UNITED) is a worship band that originated as a part of Hillsong Church. Formed in 1998 as part of Hillsong's youth ministry, the band consists of several rotating worship leaders from the church, includingBrooke Fraser, Joel Houston, Reuben Morgan and Marty Sampson. Due to several songs written by the youth ministry, Hillsong worship leader Darlene Zschech recommended that they record an album, which resulted in their debut extended play, One, which was released alongside the Hillsong Worship album Touching Heaven Changing Earth. Since then, the group has released eleven annual live albums, as well as four studio albums. The band composes songs and performs in church services as well as concerts in worldwide tours.

Hillsong Church

Hillsong Church is a Pentecostal megachurch in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, which is affiliated with Australian Christian Churches, the Australian branch of the Assemblies of God. The church was founded in 1983 when the Sydney Christian Life Centrein Waterloo, New South Wales, established by Frank Houston, merged with the Hills Christian Life Centre in Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, established by his son, Brian Houston.