Meg Mac and Matt Corby have joined forces for their joint new single, “Bricks”.
The song, which is Mac’s first-ever collaborative single, came together surprisingly quickly.
“This all happened about a month ago and wasn’t a very thought-out process,” Mac reveals. “I started writing ‘Bricks’ and thought it would make a nice duet. (I’ve always wanted to sing a duet, but no one has ever asked me!)
“So I sent a voice memo to Matt, one of my favourite singers, not really expecting him to say yes. But a couple of weeks later, I was on my way to Rainbow Valley, where we finished writing the song and recorded it straight away with Chris Collins.
“I can’t believe it’s coming out this quickly, and now I have my first duet and so happy that it’s with Matt Corby!”
Corby was all too happy to jump on the duet.
“Meg is a great singer and writer,” he shares. “We were collaborating already on some writing, and she sent me an idea to see if I would be keen to write and duet with her. We jumped into the studio pretty much straight away and I’m loving what we came out with.”
Mac last released an album in 2022, when Matter of Time received a four-star review from Rolling Stone AU/NZ.
“Meg Mac has always been deliberate with her industry moves and music works, but this third album is a grand statement,” our review read.
“It took what she herself has called a ‘meltdown’, the scrapping of an entire album two weeks before the lead single’s release, a restructure of her core team, and a move to a remote NSW village to create her most compelling body of work yet.
“From opener ‘Is It Worth Being Sad’, her pop-soul epiphany, to ‘Don’t You Cry’, the sermon to her former self, to album highlight ‘Something in the Water’, with gospel hints that will have you kneeling at the altar of Meg Mac’s second coming, Matter of Time is raw, unbridled and more assertive than any of her past works.”
Corby, meanwhile, was recently unveiled as the first artist for the new outdoor concert series, Live at the Gardens.
Presented by Roundhouse Entertainment – the team behind the beloved A Day on the Green series – Live at the Gardens is a series of outdoor concerts coming to Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne over two weekends in November.
In an exclusive Victorian show, Corby will perform at Live at the Gardens on Saturday, November 16th, accompanied by alternative rock favourites Middle Kids.
Meg Mac and Matt Corby’s “Bricks” is out now.
