because of certain chord changes , certain vocal inflections , there ’ s a different sound and you ’ re introducing that sound , but kind of creating a hybrid with some other things . And that ’ s really interesting to me . Kirby does it , Nate does it , I hear it .
[ Blake ] I think there ’ s a lot of that . All these songs were written amongst collaborators , and the way that we all collaborate is across genre , across denomination lines , color lines , all these things , whatever . And so , I think that even just the songs themselves kind of have … everything melts together . They ’ re more like genre-less than I feel some popular worship has been recently , just because of the amount of collaboration .
And then also on the record , there are so many people who are on this album who are from totally different styles of music . I mean , you ’ ve got Dough on there , but you ’ ve got Harvest Bacha , you ’ ve got Ahjah Walls , you ’ ve got all of us . And so , it ’ s like , what happens when we all kind of not just collaborate , but I say give respect to and honor each other ’ s lanes and styles , something new comes out of it . You feel that where you feel people ’ s influences , you feel their history , you feel the traditions they come from . So , I feel a lot of respect in that .
[ Kirby ] And Housefires music from the start has kind of felt a little rootsy , and thoughtful . I think one of the most surprising things , besides that people resonated with Housefires since the beginning , the other thing that ’ s surprising was how many gospel groups would redo our songs .
But Nate , me and others in Housefires , or the founding members , we all grew up loving black gospel music , and we had a diverse palette of music that we liked . And so we were just like , we ’ re just normal white people , but we like all kinds of music . And somehow unintentionally , when we would write songs , it just kind of felt , for the church , it just kind of held hands with this traditional simple sound and then this rootsy sound . And we did not intentionally do that , it just kind of is who we are .
And I mean , you hear Nate sing and you hear anything he writes , and it ’ s just the kind of songs you just want to do this to . I feel like gospel churches end up loving a lot of the songs that he writes because that ’ s just in him , because of the songs he grew up loving . And in a similar way with all of us , we ’ ve been influenced by culture in a good way . And I think that ’ s what the Bible says , the Kingdom is springing up , do you not perceive it ? And we ’ ve honored and received and gleaned from the gold springing up in all kinds of communities , all around the world and in all kinds of different cultures , and I love what it has represented and grown up to in the church .
[ WM ] Well , I heard all of that in your music , and I thought , “ Wow , this will be covered by a lot of folks , these tunes here .”
[ Kirby ] And what an honor . I mean , we still pinch ourselves every day . I can ’ t believe people resonate as much as they do . And we ’ re just writing vulnerable songs . We ’ re writing the