Matt Thiessen is in the midst of buying new furniture for his new place. Admittedly, the move is going rather slow -- it's been about a year now.

And it's not because Thiessen can't find enough friends to con with pizza and beer into helping him schlep his things up a couple flights of stairs, but rather because he really hasn't been around much to get settled in.

"It's kind of pointless, really," he says of attempting to furnish the place.

He and his breezy American pop band Relient K have spent the past year touring their latest CD mmhmm, which has proven to have an incredibly long life, thanks to MTV and radio singles such as Who I Am Hates Who I've Been.

The disc has already shipped more than 500,000 copies in the U.S. and was the top three Christian or gospel record sold down south last year (for the record, it's only Christian, really, in that it's made by Christians).

The success and the staying-power of mmhmm, Thiessen says, is something of a surprise -- despite the fact the Ohio-based band's last album is also gold and earned them a Grammy nomination for best rock gospel album.

"We don't ever expect anything," he says.

"We're just pretty down to earth normal guys and we don't think we're immensely talented, but when we get positive feedback, it's very encouraging."

Thiessen comes by his down-to-earth nature naturally -- he was born in Canada.

And, now he'll have to put the search for the perfect table lamps on hold once more, as he and his mates are heading out for yet one more tour back to his homeland, which will bring them to MacEwan Hall Tuesday night.

The rest of the year will see Thiessen returning home a little more frequently, so they can get started on the followup to mmhmm.

"You always want to do something different and sometimes you have to figure out how different and what that different is," he says of how tentative planning has already begun.