Today (Oct 25), Northern Ireland worship band Rend Collective releases Folk Part 1. The six-song collection is now available to download/stream.

Folk! is the sound of best friends living life and working out their faith together.

Folk music is just that: music crafted with real people -real “folk”- in mind.

More than maybe any other recording since Campfire, I think FOLK! is us being us.

This project sounds like what it feels like when we hang out together on rainy Sunday afternoons and holiday weekends: Someone’s plucking a weird instrument on the porch, someone’s giggling with the kiddos in the paddling pool and someone else is having a heart to heart in the kitchen (and stress eating the roast potatoes).

It’s a human, unpretentious kind of beautiful. In other words no one’s trying to be a rockstar anymore – that’s the best thing about being in a band for 15 years. You quit all the posturing. We’re just trying to connect. With God. Ourselves. Each other. We hope it sounds like that. -Rend Collective