New song "Big Freak," their first since releasing their 2024 album Faith Crisis Pt. 1 and signing to Australian indie label Mushroom Music, is a punchy pop-rock outsider anthem propelled by jolts of crunchy guitar. Frontwoman Hannah Joy explains: When I was a teenager, I didn’t want anyone to look at me or notice me at all, but when I walked home from school, I would daydream about being interviewed on some big TV talk show one day. But often these deep contradictions are the engines that drive us somewhere interesting.
The next chapter of Middle Kids is all about leaning into who we really are, with a confidence that feels new. We don’t want to treat our band like a little perfection project, we just want to bring our full selves to music, again and again, for life. For me, confession is an important part of living in my own story.
So here I am once again, and I feel like a big freak in this world. It’s been that way for a long time.
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