Middle Kids have released the video and title track for their sophomore album Today We’re The Greatest, the album is the Sydney pop-rock trio’s most personal and courageous effort to date and is already getting rave reviews. They will also perform the song next Tuesday on The Late Late Show With James Corden. 

Lead-singer and songwriter Hannah Joy’s performance on the song is heartachingly beautiful as she showcases the juxtaposition that makes her writing so compelling. The grandiose and romantic notion of the song’s title is offset by the repeated refrain ‘life is gory and boring sometimes’ which closes the song, and in-fact the entire album. Revelling equally in the good, the bad, the beautiful and ugly.

As Hannah explains: “This is a simple song about people being tiny and our lives being fleeting but also that we are epic and great. It’s finding the beauty and majesty of the everyday. LIFE IS GORY AND BORING SOMETIMES: it’s both hectic and mundane and we have to accept both.”

On Today We’re The Greatest, Hannah Joy has pulled directly from her own experiences – and broken down boundaries she’d previously set for herself. “Historically I’ve written a lot of conceptual lyrics,” she says. “Stepping into this album, I wanted to allow myself to go and write and not feel like I had any barriers to do so. I’m interested in finding the best music I can, but if I’m not willing to put skin in the game, then I’m not actually free.”