Talking The Top 5 Collabs Ever with The Comfort

Brisbane alternative rock band The Comfort have released a new collaborative single, Supernova featuring AJ Perdomo of The Dangerous Summer. Lifted from their forthcoming second studio record Experience Everything. Live And Die, the single is a twinkling, triumphant and empowering offering that seeks to uplift listeners with its honest lyricism, recounting the process of feeling the lows to be able to get back up from them again.  

Speaking about the song, vocalist and songwriter Liam Holmes shares "Supernova is about living a conscious life". "It’s about making hard choices for a better future that is true to who you really are, not letting things outside of yourself dictate your path, and experiencing the full spectrum of emotions even when they’re challenging."

Written through difficult times, the track became a cathartic release for Holmes when his crossroads offered up either distraction without growth or pain with change. He chose the latter and learnt to sit with the bad and let it break him down in order to rebuild.

"Our culture constantly encourages the avoidance of the negative. It teaches us to seek safety, pleasure and comfort at the expense of growth. How can you learn from your past if you try to forget it? I’ve learnt you need to sit with every experience in it’s totality, lean into the void and feel everything you can. This is the only way to grow. While the title and lyrics nod to Oasis, it’s also a metaphor for the collapse of one thing leading to something new and beautiful."

The presence of AJ Perdomo's evocative vocal on Supernova adds further emotionality to the song, with his trademark delivery giving the bridge significant weight. 

In the spirit of collaboration, we asked The Comfort to provide us with a list of the top five collabs ever and they did not disappoint, delivering a diverse list of cross-genre collabs that speak to the breadth of their musical influences and the depth of their musical knowledge.   

Top 5 Collabs Ever

The Maine Ft. Adam Lazzara of Taking Back Sunday - Girls Just Want To Have Fun

"I’ve never been much of a fan of “Pop Goes Punk”. I get the appeal, and sure they can be fun, but rarely does a band really take a song, pay it the respect it deserves and still make it their own. The Maine do just that on this version of the Cyndi Lauper classic and they bring in one of my all-time favourite vocalists in Adam Lazzara to help out. Adam takes the second verse, plays around with the phrasing, adds his natural charisma and then closes out the song perfectly complimenting John O’Callaghan in duet. These two voices and two bands make a perfect match, and I hope there’s more in the future."

Kanye West Ft. Jay-Z, Bon Iver and Nicki Minaj - Monster

"In 2010, Kanye releases his magnum opus in “My Beautiful Dark Twister Fantasy” and the whole record is littered with massive high profile features, like Jay-Z, Rihanna, Fergie, John Legend and Bon Iver. A track like Monster has three massive collaborations alone, and it’s not Jay-Z or Bon Iver that steal the show, but a then-unknown Nicki Minaj with only a few mixtapes under her belt. The rumour at the time was that she wrote the 32-bar verse on the plane flight on her way to the studio to record it and blew Kanye (and subsequently the world) away. Who would have thought that in 2010, on a track with verses from Kanye and Jay-Z, gods of hip-hop at the time, an unknown artist would blow them off the park."

blink-182 Ft. Robert Smith of The Cure - All of This

"The ‘Untitled’ blink record is a personal favourite for every member of The Comfort. It marks a time for all of us in which we fell in love with music and this whole record is one of the few records we all seem to have in common. Untitled really felt like a coming of age for blink in which they matured their sound and created something really special that wasn’t just fun punk songs (which don’t get me wrong, we all love to pieces also). This was really solidified by the fact that they got Robert freakin’ Smith to collaborate with them. To hear such an iconic heavyweight of music history singing on a blink track is still a crazy thing. Lyrically it conquers the task of merging the sadness and desperation of The Cure with the childish inner nature of blink."

Jay-Z x Linkin Park - Collision Course

"When I began writing this list, I had absolutely no idea I would be including two tracks with Jay-Z. But Collision Course and Numb/Encore specifically, is a moment in time that is iconic for every kid born in the 90s. A merging of two worlds that on paper didn’t work, but in reality, has probably become more iconic than the two individual songs on their own. An introduction to a new universe from whichever side you came from. This collaboration is as iconic for our generation of heavy music fans as David Bowie and Queen was for the world in 1981."

Norma Jean Ft. Chino Moreno of Deftness and Cove Reber of Saosin - Surrender Your Sons

"Norma Jean’s fourth record, ‘The Anti Mother’ was massive in so many ways. It had moved away from that chaotic noise of the earlier records and really chased a more melodic and refined sound that really defined Norma Jean moving forward. They did this with the help of a legend of the metal scene in Chino Moreno and Cover Reber of Saosin. Although they collaborated on 3 or 4 tracks on the record, it’s Surrender Your Sons that really stands out and it has Chino and Cove melodies all over it. Cove singing that background line at the end of the song “I swear I will find my way back” is absolutely chilling."

Special Mentions

Boygenius (Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus) - Souvenir

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ft. Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow

No Rome Ft. The 1975 - Narcissist 

American Football Ft. Hayley Williams - Uncomfortably Numb
Kelis Ft. Andre 3000 - Millionaire

Experience Everything. Live And Die releases on November 11 via Greyscale Records. Pre-orders are live now.