Building 429 is starting over, and the band’s resilient front man is here to tell you why …

Building 429 isn’t exactly a new band. Five years and four records into its national career, the rock trio’s résumé reads more like that of an industry veteran with numerous radio singles—including the record-breaking “Glory Defined”—a handful of Dove Award nominations, a “New Artist of the Year” win and nationwide tours with the likes of tobyMac, Pillar and Family Force 5 to its credit.

This fall Jason Roy, Jesse Garcia and Michael Anderson are redefining the music and mission of Building 429 with the release of their new self-titled CD.

“We’ve been around long enough that people have their perceptions of what we are and what we do and what we’re always going to do,” explains Roy, admitting taking even a successful career for granted could paralyze its effectiveness. “When it came around to making record No. 4, we knew we had to get out of that box and try to reclaim a little bit of the excitement and intensity we had when we came out. The best way we thought to do that was to put new people in the system.” 

Signing with new label home INO Records, Roy remembers being impressed from the get-go. “When we walked in the door, everybody at [INO] said, ‘What you do is awesome, but we think you might be able to do this even better.’”

From untried songwriting collaborations to hiring producer Christopher Stevens (tobyMac, Sanctus Real), the talented threesome worked to “rearrange the whole thought process.” With fresh perspectives driving the creative development, Roy says the band was challenged to “try and make a better record, to take another step in the direction toward really changing people’s lives and playing music that’s relevant to the culture.”

As with its approach to recording its new album, the band is utilizing its headlining spot on this fall’s “Truth, Hope & Love Tour” to renew and revise. “Our touring ideas are completely different. Anybody that’s an artist will tell you anytime you play a new song in the set, you run the risk of ruining the whole set. We have five [new songs] in the set, and this is by far the strongest we’ve ever played.”

Transferring the potent live set onto disc, Roy points to the alliance between the two. “The show has become extremely entertaining, and that’s where the show and record connect. We have been able to rebuild what we do from the inside out, from the road to the CD, as opposed from the CD to the road.”