Terrible Sons - Hold Your Light Up High
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English - February 02, 2023 21:23 - 11 minutes - 26.4 MBMusic Interviews Music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Ōtautahi/Christchurch husband-and-wife, Lauren and Matt Barus, as Terrible Sons share their new single and video ‘Hold Your Light High’. The release follows ‘Sunset Swimming,’ and 'Tomorrow Always Comes', the first new music since their much-lauded third EP, Mass (2021).
Matt says the track came about "reading Reginald Dwayne Bett’s book of poetry Felon and thinking of our broken prison system in New Zealand where Maori make up 52.7 percent of the prison population despite only making up 15 percent of the population of the country was the stimulus for this song. We wanted to hold that story and then look at hope.