Corby spent the past few years in home studios all over the world, In order to do that and get closer to the sounds he was hearing in his head, the 25-year-old isolated himself for six months in Tweed River, receiving visitors only every few weeks or so; a period he said "was kinda fun; challenging at times."

The bulk of that time saw the guitarist and pianist picking up new instruments and learning from scratch.

"I bought a drumkit and borrowed peoples' basses ... I just wanted to get to a point where I could groove with myself on each instrument. I didn't really use any electronic elements; I wanted to be able to just get my playing to the level where it did sound like a real drummer playing in a session, doing interesting things..."

For his next, slightly-less-remote creative stop: Matt rented a house in the NSW town of Berry, recording material with producer Dann Hume and Henrickson while continuing to work solo style.

On 1 October 2015, Corby released his first song in two years, "Monday", from his debut album, Telluric.

The song was described as containing "lush, transcendent harmonies, wailing falsetto, folky boom-claps, and heartbreaking lyrics". The song reportedly took 10 minutes to record, and was laid down in a cottage in the NSW coastal town of Berry where he wrote and recorded most of the album.

Corby said to Matt and Alex of Triple J: "It's stomping on the ground and clapping. It feels good to have that as a composition in a weird way, it's just your voice and everyone who would maybe want to do a cover of that if they so wish it'll always sound different because they'll have to harmonise with their own [voice]."

A lot of what ended up on Telluric - the gospel-tinged 'Monday', oozing '70s jams 'Sooth Lady Wine' and 'Knife Edge' - is the sound of Corby alone in Berry but spliced and merged with touches of his backing band from sessions recorded at Melbourne's Sing Sing Studios.

"It might be the verse of one song will be entirely me - just bass, drums, guitar, maybe piano - and then the whole band breaks out in the chorus as a unified thing."

He originally wrote his debut album two years ago in Los Angeles, but disliked the results and scrapped it. His aim was to become self-sufficient in every aspect of the recording process and salvage his confidence, which had reached rock bottom. He wanted to know he was good enough to make his debut record. Corby explained; "I recorded an album two years ago that I didn't like. For a lot of reasons I wouldn't release it. It took me a year and a half to clear my head of everything that happened, accept my failures, reboot and have the balls to do it again."

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