What Are We Waiting For? by for KING & COUNTRY

What Are We Waiting For? is the 2022 album from for KING & COUNTRY, the Australian brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone. It blends pop rock with cinematic strings and big harmonies. The theme is plain in the title: a call to stop waiting and to live, love, and stand together now.

Why listen?

The sound is wide and bright, full of drums, strings, and stacked vocals built for a big room. The production is clean and warm, never crowding the melodies. The lyrics turn on unity, grace, and pressing through pain toward hope. There is a steady arc from struggle to release across the record. It is hopeful music that asks a real question and tries to answer it.

Favourite song: Together

A wide-open anthem about carrying one another through the hard stretch, lifted by guest voices. It feels like a crowd singing as one.

If you're fightin' in the fight of your life, then stand
We're gonna make it through this hand-in-hand
And if we fall, we will fall together
Together

The way the chorus opens up feels like reaching a ridge with friends and catching the view as a group. The song answers fear with company and shared weight. That sense of not walking alone is what has stayed with me.

Key takeaway

What Are We Waiting For? is a bright, hopeful pop rock record about unity and not waiting to live. A warm, encouraging listen.

Tracklist

• Relate
• Broken Halos
• Love Me Like I Am
• Unity
• For God Is with Us
• Hold On Pain Ends
• Unsung Hero
• Harmony
• Shy
• Together
• Seasons
• Cheering You On
• Benediction

Details

Listen on

• Apple Music
• Amazon
• Spotify

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