Matt Corby’s New Single ‘No Ordinary Life’ Is A Willy Wonka Fever Dream
A world of pure imagination.
Sydney singer and facial hair enthusiast Matt Corby has returned with a new single, ‘No Ordinary Life’.
It’s the first piece of new music from Corby since his album Telluric back in 2016, which shot to #1 on the ARIA album charts off the back of singles like ‘Monday’ and ‘Knife Edge’. The track is quite a psychedelic shift for Corby, and there’s a reason for that: it was inspired by Willy Wonka.
“We were using Willy Wonka as a reference, literally, as a way to write melodies,” Corby says of the track. “I know that sounds a bit crazy, but that film has some strong melodic ideology. For some reason when you say ‘Willy Wonka’, it sets a mood — this magical, hyper-melodic, crooning, beautiful thing, a journey into the whimsical.
“We tried to make this song and a few others in that vein — as joyous as possible, which is definitely a change to what I used to do.”
‘No Ordinary Life’ is the first cut off Corby’s highly anticipated new album — as yet untitled — which is due out later in the year. There’s no word yet on whether he’ll be taking the new single out on the road, but here’s hoping.
Listen to ‘No Ordinary Life’ below.