New frontiers for country duo Sons of Atticus

So here’s the truth about being an amateur music journo with a demanding full-time job: sometimes I just don’t have time to publish things when I should. With all the best will in the world, I don’t have time to make the assets, create the video file, create the audio file, write the accompanying text and do the clips, then publish across several platforms so that I can publish the interview close to recording date.  This is why my interview with Sons of Atticus is coming to you after they’ve released their new single, ‘Be Set Free’ – which is relevant because in this interview they announce that they’ll have a new single. But, hey, maybe that means I’m right on time? Now you don’t have to wait for the single!  In case you don’t know them, Sons of Atticus are two musicians named Matt Joyce and Dylan Wright. According to their Instagram bio they are ‘just a couple buddies trying to make country music’ – and it’s safe to say they are succeeding. They released the album Jacks Motel in 2021, the EP Cedar Creek in 2023, and this year they released the single, ‘Tennessee Tipsy’, and of course they now have the new one. I last interviewed them as a pair two years ago; I interviewed Wright last year after he won Australian Idol. At the time he told me that Joyce would be joining him on his post-Idol tour as he couldn’t imagine doing it without him. That’s because these two have been making music together for years now and their bond is incredibly solid, as you’ll see in this interview and also hear in their music. There is an ease in their songs which shows – rather than tells – how they work together. Wright’s voice, all warmth and strength, works with Joyce’s guitar, with its vigour and freshness.  The way music is created is always mysterious, in that you could break down a song or album to components and offer them to someone else and a completely different work would emerge. There’s magic to it, both live and recorded. Sons of Atticus clearly had that magic within their duo when I first spoke to them and they have it still. Given all the change that Idol has brought to both of them, that’s harder to achieve than it looks from the outside. My sense as to why is because it always comes back to the music: that’s what brought them together, it’s what they love to do together, and they’re still only gathering steam. So the track ahead will be well worth us all following.  Listen to Sons of Atticus on Apple Music Listen to Sons of Atticus on Spotify For more Sunburnt Country Music: Instagram Facebook  YouTube website  Substack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.