The longevity of their second LP Never Make Friendship Personal has blown away Anberlin according to singer Stephen Christian.

One of the most polite and humble men in rock, Christian spoke exclusively to Decapolis about the moment when Tooth and Nail decided the band deserved a radio push.

“We’ve been selling the same amount of records per week in the States and around the world for a while now and so when the record label saw that they said there’s something to this record and people aren’t getting sick of it. So we went to Tooth and Nail and said how about a radio push, like around the world and lets try one of these songs on radio. They thought it over and counted up the costs and they did reports on Day Late and Paperthin Hymn.

“Brandon [Ebel, T&N chief] was a little sceptical at first, not of the songs but of the cost because we’re not a major label, we’re an indie.

“So we said, take on a gamble on us, you know we’re going to work hard and at the end of the day we did it because we were that confident in the songs.”

Ebel’s scepticism was unfounded, both singles have brought Anberlin’s best radio play since signing to T&N in 2002. At last count almost 20 rock stations have added Paperthin Hymn.