Music News - NZ's Terrible Sons share new song & video 'Easy Love'
24 March 2023 - 0 Comments
Otautahi/Christchurch husband-and-wife, Terrible Sons have released the final new track ahead of their anticipated new album The Raft Is Not The Shore out on April 28th on Nettwerk. The band has also announced a special and intimate album release show in Lyttelton at Loons on May 13th. Tickets can be purchased via Undertheradar.co.nz.
New song Easy Love is bright and wistful, having come together while examining the ins and outs that make a relationship work. Matt Barus of Terrible Sons says: “I think it's a song that contends with this bandied about idea that love is about getting your own way, getting 'my best life'. That's probably one of my most hated lines. I think we were looking at a relationship and thinking about how much communication and conversation there was to get somewhere, how hard that is, and yet how good that can be. It wasn't about getting your own way, but through conversation, and probably compromise, finding a new way together. And maybe it would end up feeling like your own way!”
The Raft Is Not The Shore was recorded in their home studio, with producer Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams, Nadia Reid) featuring a host of exceptional Ōtautahi musicians: Jo Barus, Joe McCallum, Cam Pearce, Chris Wethey. With truly stunning artwork by Spanish Illustrator, Cinta Arribas. Pre-order for the album is available HERE and at terriblesons.com
When the pandemic struck, L.A. Mitchell and Matt Barus, together known as Terrible Sons, had to wait two years between flights. At the time they had just finished working on an EP with producer/guitarist Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams, Jen Cloher) and their full band of drummer Jo McCullum (Nadia Reid, The Veils etc.) and brother, bassist and backing vocalist Jo Barus (Sir Dave Dobbyn). So flushed with the experience of having Tom at the helm that they promptly booked in a session for a full album of yet-to-be written songs. However, with New Zealand’s strict lockdown and travel rules in place, the recordings would take much longer than the songs took to write. Tom, in Auckland, had to book and rebook flights, waiting for gaps in the travel ban before he could return to complete the sessions in Christchurch. Six flights later, followed by six months of back-and-forth mixing, and the album is finally complete.
The playlist given to the band before the recording has a few clues as to the sound of the album. Simon & Garfunkel, Dr John, Bill Withers and Bobbie Gentry are there, alongside Blake Mills and Olafur Arnalds. The album looks to the past but is irrevocably modern, with glitches courtesy of Tom and concerns that are equally relevant now as they were fifty years ago. There’s strings, space and quiet, offset with moments of frenetic joy.
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