Citizens Is Making Worship Music for the Spiritually Curious

Zach Bolen knows Citizens doesn’t quite fit. They never really have.The Seattle-born, now Nashville-based band has spent the last decade toeing the line between worship music and indie rock, releasing seven albums that sound more like Arcade Fire than anything you’d find on Christian radio. While the band’s lyrics are rooted in faith, their sound and sensibility have always pointed somewhere more expansive, more emotionally open, more artistically free.Even after 10 years of quietly redefi