TERRIBLE SONS share new single ‘Tomorrow Always Comes’

Ōtautahi/Christchurch husband-and-wife, Lauren and Matt Barus, as Terrible Sons share their new single and video ‘Tomorrow Always Comes’. The release follows the “tender melodies and romantic lyrics” (Undertheradar) of ‘Sunset Swimming,’ the first single since their much-lauded third EP,  Mass (2021). The duo is set to embark on an eight-date nationwide tour this November and early December.

‘Tomorrow Always Comes’ is a song about inevitability expressed throughout a solid rhythmic bed that clicks and clacks in an unrelenting time signature. It features long-term friends and collaborators Jo McCullum (Nadia Reid, The Veils) on drums and percussion, Jo Barus (Dave Dobbyn) on bass, and Tom Healey (Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams, Nadia Reid) on guitar and producing.

Matt says the track is “our life inside a pinball machine, 2020-2021. Full of joy, thinking of Flying Nun’s Bressa Creeting Cake and Illinois-era Sufjan. This song went through three incarnations before we settled – it took a while to match the upbeat music with a lyric we wanted to sing about. It’s about inevitability; we’re learning that our life as we know it may not march on, but time does. Maybe there’s a joy in knowing we’re not the centre of everything.” 

The accompanying video is a directorial debut by Lauren, made alongside camera operator Kirk Pflaum, and editor Loren Kett. Shot in an old brick warehouse a couple of hundred meters from the couple’s home, full of exceptional Kauri beams. The playfully propulsive visual mirrors the momentum and the jauntiness of the song’s instrumentation.

Lauren shares: “We wanted it to make you feel this sense of speed of change, of rushing, sometimes chaotic, sometimes idiotic, and nonsensical,  all of which feel like our response and observations of the world in this moment of time.” 

L A Mitchell & Matt Barus have long been a part of the local musical landscape, previously releasing records with pop rock band the Dukes and performing in Aotearoa supergroup Fly My Pretties, alongside a variety of collaborative, performing and songwriting work.

This November and early December will be the duo’s first tour as Terrible Sons and audiences can expect stories, laughter, hopefully some tearing up and a baker’s dozen of songs. They’ll be joined in Te Ika-a-Māui/North Island by friend and singer songwriter Rodney Fisher (Goodshirt) and in Te Waipounamu/Wellington by Hannah Everingham.

Watch: Terrible Sons  – ‘Tomorrow Always Comes’ 
Stream / Download: https://terriblesons.ffm.to/tomorrowalwayscomes

Terrible Sons – Sunset Swimming Tour 2022

Wednesday 16th November – The Wine Cellar, Auckland w/ Rodney Fisher
Thursday 17th November – Last Place, Hamilton w/ Rodney Fisher
Friday 18th November – Leigh Sawmill Cafe, Leigh w/ Rodney Fisher
Saturday 19th November – Secret Location
Saturday 26th November – The Grand Hotel, Akaroa w/ Hannah Everingham
Friday 2nd December – Grainstore Gallery, Oamaru w/ Hannah Everingham
Saturday 3rd December – Bark @ Dog With Two Tails, Dunedin w/ Hannah Everingham
Friday 9th December – Fairfield House, Nelson w/ Hannah Everingham

Tickets available HERE via UTR

Terrible Sons is the moniker for husband/wife duo Matthew Barus (The Dukes) and Lauren Barus (L.A. Mitchell, Fly My Pretties), who work and live with their two children in an intentional community near Christchurch. Having clocked up over 18 million streams on previous singles since 2018, the quietly accomplished band is signed to Canadian label Nettwerk. The band’s string of sparse, yet intimate modern folk EP releases include their most recent, and much-lauded third EP Mass.