What was your inspiration for the album?
Over the past few years we have noticed that what’s been sustaining us through difficult times has been joy and trusting in God. We looked at a lot of worship music that’s out there and realised that we’re pretty good at reverence and coming before God knowing that he’s holy, but not necessarily so good at celebrating. So, unusually for us, we decided before we wrote it that the concept was the art of celebration, and wrote all the songs with that in mind.
As a band you’re known for creativity – where do you look for ideas?
You never knowingly look for ideas, they just keep bombarding you. We hang out with a lot of different types of people; we listen to every style of music you can imagine; we read a lot. We don’t have a TV, so we just chat and try and hear what God’s saying.
This album feels much simpler than previous ones – what prompted the shift?
We would hope that it’s slightly more mature. We realised that we had written a lot of songs which congregations couldn’t sing. We want to be creative but also to serve and give the Church resources that it can use.
What does the writing process look like?
This album has been more collaborative than any other. There are a few song-writers [in the band] who come to the fore, but every song has the fingerprints of the whole team – especially musically and in performance.
