For King & Country return with "Joy" single; album set for autumn release
THE GRAMMY-winning Australia-born, USA-based duo For King &
Country have released the single "Joy" from an album due this autumn,
which will be their first since 2014's 'Run Wild. Live Free. Love
Strong'. The group's Joel Smallbone told Billboard magazine, "This
song took six months to write, and we wrote it partly here in
Nashville, some in England, some in Los Angeles, and it was not a
finicky song at all to write, we just have a long process. On the song
itself, I think that people are so attached to their phones, screens,
social media that you need to pause and see the joy, in human
connection and interaction." Luke Smallbone added, "We wanted to
really concentrate on positivity in this song and leave out all
negativity. I feel like when people see the video, it will bring it
home and make sense. There's a real beauty in diversity and different
opinions. If you can be open and free about it, that's where the joy
is."