Telluric by Matt Corby

Telluric, Matt Corby's first full-length album, arrived on Mercury on March 11, 2016, and it very nearly didn't. The Australian singer-songwriter had made a debut in Los Angeles a couple of years earlier, hated it and scrapped it, then spent a year and a half getting his head straight before trying again. This time he wanted to handle every part of the recording himself, and he made most of it holed up in a cottage in Berry, a coastal town in New South Wales, with Dann Hume producing.

You can hear the solitude. "Monday", his first new song in two years and reportedly cut in 10 minutes, carries the gospel he grew up steeped in, while "Sooth Lady Wine" and "Knife Edge" stretch out into loose, vintage-sounding jams. It's the kid behind "Brother" and "Resolution", both ARIA Song of the Year winners, finally taking his time over a whole album.

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