THINGS WE DID ON EARTH (2026)

Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy - Things We Did On Earth cover

Tracks (click a title for details)

  Media

1.Reverie (4:01)
2.Jezebel (4:57)
3.Dysphoria (04:45)
4.The Dryad (4:05)
5.Turkey (4:17)
6.You Are The One (3:41)
7.Disobey (3:46)
8.Serafina (3:09) /
9.My Today (3:50)
10.Formless Realms (3:23)
11.Things We Did On Earth (4:16)
12.A Question In The Dark (3:58) [bonus track - download only]  
   

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Credits

Written and recorded by Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy
Mixed by Bradley Timko
Mastered by Simon Polinski
Album art by Christiana Monored
Guitars and synths by Martin Kennedy
Bass by Corey Gilham
Drums by Chris Brush (except My Today and Things We Did On Earth)
Ney on Turkey by Nafise Amin
Pedal steel guitar on Things We Did On Earth by Steve Giddings
Backing vocals on Reverie, Jezebel, The Dryad, Formless Realms and Things We Did On Earth by Leona Gray
Backing vocals on Dysphoria, You Are The One and Serafina by Sasquin
Kids voices on Disobey: Giulia and Ian Baker, Annika Meidling, Taylor Jones, Veronica and Louis Swingley, Zoe Lawlor, Xavier Chapman, Ronie Rubin

Releases (rev. June 23, 2026)

Notes

Packaging includes this poem:

THE END OF A CENTURY OF WONDERS
EACH GLORIOUS LIFE ENGULFED BY THE REVERIE FOUNDATION
A MILLION MEMORIES AT ONCE
ALL AVAILABLE TO LOVED ONES
AND FOR SALE TO STRANGERS
AS THINGS FELL APART MY DAUGHTER SERAFINA HIDING FOREVER
IN AN IMAGINARY DARKENED HOUSE IN THE WOODS
EXOTIC HOLIDAYS IN BEAUTIFUL PLACES
AN ENCOUNTER WITH AN EEL
THE WHEEL AND WHIRL OF KARMA
THE SHADOWS OF OUR LIVES IN THESE SONGS
MORNINGS OF DESPAIR AND EVENINGS OF DECEIT
AND LOVELY SPIRIT FROM THE OTHERWORLD SHE SHINES ON A FRAGILE FLAME
AN ARGUMENT
A MARVELLOUS VIEW OVER A SEASIDE CITY
THE MACHINES THAT CAME TO LIFE
AND THE PLANTS THAT WERE HARVESTED FOR COGS AND FILAMENTS
ALL THE LOVE AND LOATHING
ALL THE BUSTLE
AND THE STILLNESS OF A DAWN LAKE
THUS ARE THE THINGS WE DID ON EARTH

Marketing write-up:

In 1981 a teenage Martin Kennedy watched Steve Kilbey and The Church play a strange hippie festival at Tanelorn, Australia. The Church were outliers, and he fell in love with their anti-hippie look and sound, recording the set on a Walkman. Those songs helped spark the beginning of his music career.

Forty-five years later Kennedy and Kilbey find themselves working together on their ninth studio album, Things We Did On Earth.

Living in their own creative universe, untouched by trends new and old (Kennedy studiously avoids listening to new music), Things We Did On Earth is the culmination of their journey - individually and together - everything that has lead up to this moment. Meditations on life and mortality. These are the things they did on Earth.

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SERAFINA (2026)

Kilbey-Kennedy - Serafina Cover

Tracks

1.Serafina (3:09)
2.Serafina (Instrumental) (3:12)
3.Serafina (Early Demo) (02:53)

Releases

Notes

Review by Gareth Bryant at scenestr:

Martin writes the music and Steve rocks ups to write and sings the words. No argument, no egos, just a matter of pressing record. That simplicity oozes forth on 'Things We Did On Earth''s lead single 'Serafina'. Ethereal, celestial synths seep out, congealing with a sparse acoustic guitar that gleams, Kilbey's husky but soothing vocals providing a mellowness, the sense of serenity strong. The song continues to noodle away, the two-chord melody meandering before the song's sonic explosion arrives, a cleansing that builds a wall of emotive feels that will envelop you. It's ambient new wave cocooned by indietronica with elements of shoegaze and dream pop, the guitar and drums entwining, the sonic textures crafted ideal to loose yourself within your own mind, thoughts floating into oblivion.