Two-time GRAMMY award-winning duo for KING & COUNTRY makes a powerful statement with their third album, Burn the Ships. It's an epic, sweeping musical landscape exploring themes of new beginnings, forgiveness, hope, and love. With vulnerability and honesty, they wrote every song on this project. “It isn’t perfect – far from it – but there is a sense of truthfulness and a heart and a personality and an ideology behind this record,” co-frontman Joel Smallbone says. “It feels like the most mature version of for KING & COUNTRY.”
The title track was inspired by a 1500s Spanish explorer who boldly landed his ships on enemy shores without any knowledge of what awaited his arrival. To ensure that the men were committed to their mission, he proclaimed, “Burn the ships!” The only way to go was onward; retreat was not an option.
“That is the big statement that this collection of songs is making,” says Luke. “We don’t want to live in the past; we want to move forward. There are things in everybody’s pasts that you have to get rid of—in some cases physically burn and in other cases you just need to get rid of them however you can emotionally. For us, that is the name that represents this collection of art and work best.”
Burn the Ships - for KING & COUNTRY
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