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WATCH NOW: Chandler Moore and Justin Bieber sing “Jireh (You Are Enough)” / “How He Loves” What brings us together-and that sound that is vivaciously smacking you in the face the first time you hit play on a Maverick track-isn’t the sound of a community that’s centered around their deprivation, it’s the audacious sound of true belonging: the beautiful harmony of long lost family. Maverick City started with a dream to make space for folk that would otherwise live in their own separate worlds to break the unspoken rules that exist in the CCM and Gospel world but…more importantly, to be a megaphone for a community of creatives that have been pushed to the margins of the industry of Church Music. Their vision statement housed on the outfit’s official website frankly breaks down their simple mission: Yet, they never set out to win awards or collaborate with mainstream pop stars. Moore even paired up with Justin Bieber for a high-profile worship set. Lake and Bowe have joined the Maverick City Music ranks alongside Raine and up-and-comers Joe L Barnes, Aaron Moses and David Moore, among many others. WATCH NOW: 'Old Church Basement' (with Elevation Worship)Įach of Mav City’s members is an accomplished solo artist in his or her own right. In addition, Maverick City Music was the most nominated artist at the 2021 K-LOVE Fan Awards. Honors from the Stellar Awards, the Dove Awards, the Billboard Music Awards and the American Music Awards followed. Their collaborative set with Elevation Worship, Old Church Basement, launched them into an entirely different stratosphere when it broke streaming records and earned the two collectives an avalanche of award nominations. In fact, in just two years, their discography now includes as many songs as that of a veteran artist. Their full recordings feel less like LPs and more like mixtapes with no sign of the typical two-years-between-albums gap. Many of their songs hover around the 10-minute mark, like signature tracks “Man of Your Word” and “Jireh (You Are Enough).” Their offerings are wild and free, unpolished and untamed. Since their initial five-song debut in 2019, Maverick City Music has unveiled more than a dozen different collections of music, collaborating with UPPER ROOM, and Worship, among other entities. If their approach to recording seems unorthodox, their release strategy is even more unconventional. We were just singing together because we loved it.” We started it before we had a name or anything. And so we did that, and that became the first album-that became Maverick City, Vol. “We would write songs together and then demo them in a real worship setting in the hopes that maybe worship leaders, worship singers and CCM artists would want to take these songs and record them. “It started off as a production group of songwriters,” Raine explains.

New kids on the block full discography series#

The group, established by Tony Brown and Jonathan Jay in Atlanta, Ga., simply began through a series of writing camps with the intent to give marginalized artists a microphone. I’m very surprised by all of this.”Īsk any other member of the collective, and they’ll share a similar response. When asked if she ever saw the tidal wave of popularity coming for the group, she replies, “Not one inkling. Had she known that Maverick City Music would go on to become a cultural phenomenon, she would have-at the very least-learned the lyrics beforehand and forgone the stick of Double Mint. She’s just grateful she had done her hair. It would be good to hear more of that next time.Meet the collective of artists and songwriters taking the worship world by storm.īefore City Music was a household name, singer and songwriter Naomi Raine says she was reading lyrics off her phone and chewing gum in the first music video the collective ever shot. Only the lilting closer, Survive You – co-written by two members of JLS, oddly enough – makes proper use of their core strength: the ability to harmonise like a traditional Boston streetcorner band. The result is a muddle of mid-2000s electro (such as Crash, which is splashed with RedOne-style Auto-Tune), bubblegum-urban modelled on their early hits (Now or Never) and conveyor-belt ballads (take your pick from half a dozen, which condense romantic relationships into snippets such as: 'You're the oxygen I breathe, you're running through my veins'). They're a personality-driven outfit (remember the antics of naughty old Donnie Wahlberg?) who rely on outside songwriting help, in this case Danish team DeeKay. New Kids on the Block, now on their second album since reuniting in 2008, aren't so lucky. O ne of the reasons Take That's comeback has been a record-breaker is that they have in their ranks a songwriter who has matured into a purveyor of elegant, grownup pop.