Matt’s first new music for 2019, ‘Talk It Out’ is a blissed-out and soulful anthem, where both of the artist’s own distinctive features shine through, both wholly unique and utterly harmonious.

“I wrote the song during the sessions for ‘Rainbow Valley’, but in a different way to the rest of the album. It didn’t feel like it was a fit for the record so I revisited it with Tash recently” says Matt, who plays all instruments on the track aside from Tash’s guitar.  “Tash has a giant musical beast living inside of her, so I knew she could deal with whatever I threw at her. It was amazing to collaborate with someone like that, and have her throw her musical styling’s over the song”.

Tash continues “We originally started having a jam in early 2017, then life came between making music together. This track came about because Matt didn’t include it on ‘Rainbow Valley’. He sent it to me to fill in the blanks, and it’s the first collaboration I’ve done with another artist that I’ve released. Matt is an amazing songwriter and instrumentalist. He’s also an absolutely awesome guy with a huge soul so it was a privilege to be a part of this project.”

Over the last 12 months, both Matt Corby and Tash Sultana have released critically acclaimed albums, with both Rainbow Valley and Flow State becoming triple j feature albums and touring nationally playing venues including the Hordern Pavilion, Margaret Court Arena and Myer Music Bowl.  Tash Sultana is one of Australia’s biggest live exports and has broken attendance records throughout the world. Matt and Tash collectively have over 750 million streams, gold albums, and six time platinum and three time platinum singles.

Matt is currently playing festival shows throughout the UK and Europe, spending the weekend playing Glastonbury Festival before heading home at the end of the month to play the mainstage at Splendour in the Grass.

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Following the release of sparkling first single No Ordinary Life in August 2018, Matt Corby today announces the release of his long-awaited second album, Rainbow Valley, with a new song All Fired Up.

The bare-bones ballad talks of struggle from the outside, draping the stark, aching admission, “when you break, I break”, over an understated piano arrangement. Matt also releases a live video performing this track as a one-take version on the piano, filmed on the lawn of his home studio in Northern NSW.

For a decade, Corby has been pushing his own boundaries, embracing a journey of self-discovery that’s seen him wrestle a few pre-conceptions and stare down his share of demons. Now, with two ARIA Song of the Year awards on the shelf, and a #1 debut album, Telluric, behind him, Corby can genuinely lay claim to some hard-earned perspective.

“I think, in a really good way, I have stopped caring quite so much,” he says. “I don’t mean about the quality of what I am creating, but about that seriousness, about having to prove I can write a song in a clever way or perform a song in a way that makes people feel good. I can trust my instinct a little now and go with it.”

Written and recorded in a period that also saw the birth of his first child, Corby’s second full-length release is brimming with a new-found vitality and joy, a fresh energy that finds perfect expression in a kaleidoscopic reimagining of the sound he has honed for the last ten years.

Like Telluric before it, much of the creative momentum behind his new album Rainbow Valley was born from jam sessions with old friend and long-time artistic foil Alex Henriksson, who is co-writer of two songs on the record (‘Get With The Times’ and ‘Rainbow Valley’).

Buoyed by a boatload of inspiration from those creative sessions, earlier this year Corby retired to the idyllic surroundings of Byron Bay’s Music Farm studios to begin work on the album proper. As he had with Telluric, Corby once again enlisted the help of producer Dann Hume (Amy Shark, Client Liason) and engineer Matthew Neighbour (Avalanches, Missy Higgins). Everything else – drums, strings, keys, synths, piano and vocals – he took care of himself.

“I play and sing every part on the album,” he says. “Working like that meant we could really develop ideas quickly – when I want it to feel a certain way, I know five things I can do on six instruments that could potentially create that, and so we just go through them all.”

The results speak for themselves. Lush, multi-textured and sparked by hints of both old soul and futuristic psychedelia, Rainbow Valley is, in Corby’s words “joyous music”, but it also has the depth and perspective of an artist who understands you can’t just take the good times for granted, you have to earn them.

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