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Jan 11, 2024 By Mark Redfern Photography by Pooneh Ghana

Australian trio Middle Kids are releasing a new album, Faith Crisis Pt 1, on February 16 via Lucky Number. Now they have shared another new song from it, “Terrible News.” Nick Mckk and Claire Giuffre directed the video. Watch it below.

Lead vocalist Hannah Joy wrote the song during the pandemic. “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,” says Joy in a press release. “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.”

Previously we posted the album’s “Bootleg Firecracker” and “Highlands.” They have also shared two other singles from the album: “Bend” and “Dramamine.”

Middle Kids’ previous album was 2021’s Today We’re the Greatest.

Read our review of Today We’re The Greatest.

Read our 2017 Pleased to Meet You interview with Middle Kids.

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