“Mother & Father” by Broods

"Mother & Father" was the lead single from Evergreen, the 2014 debut album by New Zealand duo Broods, and it went out on 19 June that year. Caleb and Georgia Nott wrote it with Joel Little, the same team behind their self-titled debut EP, and Little produced, engineered and mixed it himself, which keeps the whole thing tight and in-house.

It's electropop with the lights turned low: stacked voices, big hooks and a quiet ache under all the gloss. Idolator's Bradley Stern heard the duo growing up in it, doubts and all, and AllMusic's Timothy Monger singled it out for its hooks and layered vocals. At home it entered the New Zealand chart at number forty and leapt to number fourteen a week later.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.