Indie Tribe Is Letting Fans Into the Chaos With a New Documentary
Indie Tribe has dropped the first episode of their new documentary centered around the making of Who Do You Say I Am?, the ambitious album that expanded both their sound and their vision. The group has spent years documenting nearly everything they do — and are still figuring out the best way to share it.
“We’ve tried to be very intentional with documenting everything going on with the creation of this,” member Jon Keith said during a recent conversation with RELEVANT.
In fact, this isn’t even their first attempt.
“A lot of people don’t know Indie Tribe has a 90-minute long feature-length documentary about it,” one member said.
The group also revealed they filmed extensive footage during the creation of Low Blow that never ended up getting released.
“We do have one for our album Low Blow that still has never come out,” they said. “We have all the documented footage.”
This time, though, they seem determined to get it right.
“We realized it didn’t come together on the last one the way that we wanted,” Mogli the Iceburg said. “So we’re trying to correct for that.”
That instinct to document everything isn’t really about content. At least not primarily. For a group like Indie Tribe, the process is inseparable from the music itself.
The collective’s entire creative model is built around proximity. They live together, eat together, pray together, study Scripture together and then make music together. When they gathered to create Who Do You Say I Am?, it wasn’t a traditional album session. It was closer to a communal retreat.
“The way we like to make music is together,” Keith said. “We live together and eat together, pray together, we do Bible studies, all that kind of stuff, and we make music for a week.”
That dynamic is part of why the documentary matters.
Fans already hear the chemistry on the records. The film gives context for where it comes from.
“We really love art,” Keith said. “Being able to see and get to know the artists more that we loved growing up always helped the music.”
But he said the deeper goal goes beyond fan service.
“It’s not just for the sake of people seeing more of us,” he said. “It’s for the sake of hoping that people through us will see Jesus clearer.”
That includes showing moments most artists would probably edit out.
In the group’s first documentary, there’s footage of members arguing.
“There’s a moment on camera of me and Mykael getting into it,” Keith said.
The group laughs about those moments now, but they also see value in letting people watch them happen.
“For people to see that we have those moments and God works through those moments still,” he said.
That honesty has become part of Indie Tribe’s identity. Their music often pushes against polished versions of faith, and the documentary appears to do the same.
“We want to be disruptive to the world, but we also want to be disruptive to the church,” Keith said.
That philosophy runs through Who Do You Say I Am?, an album built around empathy, introspection and reexamining biblical narratives through a more human lens.
The group spent much of the album exploring what it might have actually felt like to be the people Scripture talks about rather than flattening them into heroes or villains.
“If you really think about it, all of it magnifies the goodness and the mercy and the grace of God,” Nobigdyl said.
The documentary seems poised to apply that same lens inward.
Because if there’s one thing Indie Tribe keeps returning to, it’s community.
“I think people really like about Indie Tribe is our community and how that shines through the music,” Mogli said.
He argued that what fans are connecting with isn’t simply a sound. It’s a picture of friendship, accountability and shared faith that feels increasingly rare in an industry often driven by algorithms and strategy.
But Indie Tribe operates differently.
“It’s as opposite of that as you could possibly get,” Nobigdyl said.
Which is probably why a documentary feels inevitable. The story behind Who Do You Say I Am? was never just about making an album. It was about the people making it together.
And judging by what the group has released so far, they’re finally ready to let everyone else into the room.
