Lyrically, the two venture into unfamiliar territory, taking cues from folk tradition by singing their own version of a protest song on “The World is Walking Over Us.” “We don’t want to see ourselves as people who look at our own little issues under a microscope,” says Matt. It’s clear from the record’s start that some kind of evolution has taken place, but in more ways than one, Mass marks a new path for Matt and Lauren. But beyond these formative emotions exists a collective experience, one that Terrible Sons boldly tapped into on their forthcoming EP, Mass (February 2021). And while the music they’ve made in the past has reflected the intimate and bucolic warmth that wraps around their family, Terrible Sons has never shied away from revealing the more vulnerable feelings that define us all - heartbreak, loneliness, exhaustion. Husband and wife duo Matt and Lauren Barus work and live with their two children in an intentional community near Christchurch, New Zealand. Certainly, these terms may apply to the life that Terrible Sons has built for themselves. It’s easy to stay insular when your home is not only on an island, but cast in such idyllic light, an almost arcadian realm in the eyes of the world.

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