Sydney trio Middle Kids have today released “Terrible News“, the latest single from their forthcoming album Faith Crisis Pt 1, set for release on February 16th and available to pre-order now.
Produced by Jonathan Gilmore (The 1975, beabadoobee), “Terrible News” is a confessional guitar laden track penned by lead vocalist Hannah Joy in an insecure time during covid. “There was a lot of confusion and information and rules and anger and people judging people and loss and distrust. I eventually felt so overwhelmed by all the noise, I couldn’t take it anymore.” explains Joy. “The guitars are kinda shouty too or maybe just urgent. I wanted to stack a lot of guitar layers to create almost a guitar choir. We got a friend Brendan Champion to play some brass on it which really elevates the song as it marches along.”
Watch the music video, directed by Nick Mckk and Claire Giuffre, below: