You say that a million times to a baby – and it’s true for us! We’re just God’s kids. For him, if he bonks his head, it’s gonna be OK.
It’s a song where I thought a lot about my boy Ziggy as I wrote it – what’s the simplest possible way to explain God’s sovereignty to a one-year-old? That everything’s OK, you’ll be alright, make the most of it. We can just make the most of things this side of heaven when they do get hard, trusting God with the outcome. After life is over, it’s going to be alright. The reality is that because we are God’s kids, things are OK for us at the end of the day. At the end of the day, I knew this needed to be a light-hearted pop song… My family has come from a theology-heavy church background, and one thing that’s been really helpful for us is to think of things more simply, especially now that we have an almost-one-year-old little boy named Ziggy. Most Of It started with a strong musical idea that I had. It plays back and forth between beyond control – being in enchantment with God and his kingdom.Ĭhad then took me track by track through Beyond Control :Ĭlick here to read Chad’s explanation of the single Enchanted, from our interview on release.
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Being able to see that the world is wild and scary and it is harsh but it is also full of beauty and adventure with God at the helm. The flipside of that is that this record goes between the two worlds – beyond control and enchantment. That whole world has left me feeling lonely and isolated and cold. I was inspired through a sermon but then I kept spinning my wheels on it. Being on the Internet all the time was overwhelming to me and really made me start to think about how so much of my world is spent trying to control everything – my future, my success… even eternity. What is Beyond Control ?ĬHAD: I think it’s the idea that I was thinking a whole lot about this year as I just really felt the pressure and intensity of living in a fast-paced, modern, information-saturated global world. SAM: First of all, let’s talk about the concept of this record. I don’t know what you’d call us…ĬHAD: We’re a hybrid! That’s a really good word. We make gospel music and our style is all over the place because we’ve got up to ten people coming in and out of the band.
SAM: If people are listening and have never heard of Kings Kaleidoscope before, very briefly – who are you?ĬHAD: We are a band from Seattle, Washington.
I’ve felt overjoyed over the past few days. Really encouraging to make a record that feels really personal to me and immediately have so many people resonate with it. Since updating our website as it released, it was so exciting. SAM: What’s it like dropping your second album on the world?ĬHAD: Oh man… The word exciting gets overused all the time but it’s genuinely so. (Scroll down to hear audio of the interview) We recently spoke with Chad, who talked the album through track-by-track, and discussed the use of explicit language, and his love for Chance the Rapper. Two years after the release of their debut album Becoming Who We Are, Seattle Kings Kaleidoscope have returned with Beyond Control, a turbulent and very personal album for lead singer and ringleader Chad Gardner.
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