The Pleasures Release ‘Paranoid’ Single

“Paranoid” is the third single release from The Pleasures’ debut album (due Aug 5th).

With its Merseybeat drum groove, punk- rock-bass and Queens of the Stone Age- inspired electric guitars, “Paranoid” jolts, jangles, trips and tumbles along with all the chaos and clutter its title suggests.

The lyric is witty and wry, delivered in Buddy and Julie style hillbilly harmony by dual front persons Catherine Britt and Lachlan Bryan.

“Like all our songs it was written late at night”, explains Catherine, “and we’d been laughing at all the gossip and loose talk we’ve experienced over the years. It pretty much wrote itself!”

The Pleasures are a new band fronted by Australian country music icon Catherine Britt and Americana troubadour Lachlan Bryan. Formed in 2021, their two singles to date have received heavy rotation on local and national radio, and their unpredictable live shows – masterclasses in on-stage chemistry – have captured the hearts of audiences in small, dingy rooms up and down the east coast. 

No shrinking violets, The Pleasures’ sound is raucous, dirty and blues-inspired (occasionally interrupted by delicate moments of sublime country-folk), whilst their subject matter leaps from bold and bawdy to heartfelt and insightful. They call themselves a country band, but there’s as much Jack White influence here as there is George Jones  (in fact there’s plenty of both) alongside the plethora of mythologised girl-boy country acts with whom they will inevitably draw comparison. If you get the feeling that Catherine and Lachlan have drawn upon every debaucerous night out, self-inflicted wound, bleeding heart and broken bone to come up with this noise, you’d be absolutely right.