see it coming’ moments that surprised you that. I needed to be on stage and I needed to [WM] How does this organic approach differs
most? feel extremely vulnerable because that would from modern Worship music?
help me improve as a musician.
[David] Playing on Ellen, and also playing on
[David] One thing that we always talk about
the Tonight Show. I was anticipating Lauren’s [WM] What are some of the specific areas as a band, and no band is immune to this, even
album to do really well in the Christian circuit, where you’re seeing that improvement? in Lauren’s band we had to practice to get
and it has. But I wasn’t anticipating it would
to this place. Just because you’re in a band,
hit mainstream as well as it has. The fact that [David] Even as a band, there’s not a lot of whether you’re playing at church or in any
I can go on my phone right now and it’s still in loops going on in her music, so everything setting, that doesn’t mean you know how to
the top ten on iTunes is mind boggling to me. you hear from stage in some form or fashion play together. I think that’s a problem churches
That album came out in September, we’re two someone is physically playing. We have an might face right now, that you can get away
months into the album. We’re in such a day and auxiliary guy who is manually playing tracks with not playing all together because there are
age where everyone is only focused on singles, from his Ableton Push, we’re not just playing to so many tracks, and there are so many things
people are onto the next thing before the old a track and following it, we are all making music going on, and that it has the potential to hide
thing has even hit. Our attention spans are so and if I stop playing a quarter of the sound is a problem.
short these days, and to see Laurens album still playing. What I used to be doing was so track in the consciousness of a lot of people, I think heavy where I felt like if I stopped playing there You take the tracks out and you just hear the
that says a lot about the album as a whole. You wasn’t as much of an impact. Whereas now five people on stage, and if it doesn’t sound
can still make an album these days, don’t be with what we’re doing, it’s like we’re in a garage great it’s because everyone on stage is only
afraid to make an album. I think that is really again, and we’re trying to make the garage listening to themselves. Because when you
exciting for me because I’m a part of something sound great. It’s just a new way of playing that practice for Sunday morning you might just be
where we’re just really focused on making really I haven’t done in a long time and it’s truly made sitting in your room by yourself playing to the
fun music, and I feel as a musician I needed me a better player. mp3, you’re not playing with the other people
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