Finn Pearson searches for balance on stirring new single 'Equilibrium'
Photo Credit: Josh Ludlow & Pierre Gildenhuys
Emerging from the heart of Western Australia’s alt-country/rock scene, Finn Pearson returns with his most introspective release yet: Equilibrium, a brooding and nostalgic reflection on memory, stagnation, and the quiet chaos of growing up in a place that never seems to change - Out 1 August.
A longtime favourite in the band’s live set, Equilibrium has been five years in the making. It’s a song that has evolved dramatically in that time, finally landing in a version that leans into intuitive choices, melodic experimentation, and a subtly powerful slide guitar line that unlocked the song’s final form.
“It’s sort of a letter to myself. It explores the feeling of looking around the place you’ve grown up and tracing all of your memories and feeling trapped and intransient whilst the world moves around you.” Pearson shares. “Equilibrium is a tangle of imagery from my childhood juxtaposed with the anxieties of adulthood. The intention was to capture the feeling of uncertainty and frustration, when everything and nothing seems happening all at once, and it all seems to be crescendoing towards a maddening anti-climax that leaves you back where you started.”
Sonically, Equilibrium is a convergence of Pearson’s hallmark lyrical introspection with the moodier edge of alt-country and classic rock, somewhere between The National, Bruce Springsteen, and Chris Stapleton, wrapped in the warm dust of WA’s sprawling suburbs and highway landscapes.
The track was written and performed by Finn Pearson, with long-time collaborators Oliver Bodlovich (drums, backing vocals, production, mixing), Max Lockitt (lead guitar, keys, backing vocals), Siobhan Cotchin (bass), and mastered by James Newhouse. “We experimented a lot looking for a melodic hook as that was the piece of the puzzle which was really missing for me.” explains Finn, continuing “The slide guitar emerged last and really tied the whole piece together and gave it more of an alt-country feel that I hadn’t really envisioned it having. Fun fact, it’s also got my favourite bridge I’ve ever written in it.”
Following a huge 2024 that included festival slots at Out of the Woods, Wave Rock, Blues at Bridgetown, and support shows with Kingswood and The Southern River Band, the Finn Pearson Band are poised to launch into a new era of music with a sharper, darker edge and revitalised live energy.
Finn Pearson’s new single Equilibrium is out now