Let’s get this out of the way first. It may have been easy to form a certain narrative around Kanye West’s Sunday Service at Coachella today. In Twitter speak, his “cancelling” has followed his vocal support of President Donald Trump. Today’s narrative could have been one of resurrection on top a Ye-made mountain in a car park of narcissists, one of Insta-framed redemption via a flooding of hashtags on social media, or through a flurry of hits such as Jesus Walks and any song from his Messiah complex album Yeezus.

The biggest surprise, however, was that the Sunday Service the rapper and impresario brought to Coachella was not in service of his own ego. It was in service of music.

Kanye has been holding these Sunday morning services since earlier this year, with a gospel choir performing new renditions of his songs. Up until now, these have been livestreamed on Instagram from unknown locations, with the most privileged of his peers present (Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom and Tyler The Creator attended one last month).This weekend, instead of doing a traditional headline slot, he asked festivalgoers to rise from their pits at an inhospitable hour on Sunday morning and come to a secret location for 9am.