What I Get for Loving You

Australian duo Seaforth may technically be a country act, but their sound extends well beyond the confines of the genre. Witness feel-good opener “Queen of Daytona Beach,” a country-rock banger with guest Auto-Tuned vocals from Jamaican American rapper Sean Kingston. Its summery lyrics are echoed in “Good Beer” (“A good beer is a cold one/If you got green, you better roll one”) and the soft rock of “Palm of Your Hand” (“It ain’t just that dress that’s gonna be fallin’ tonight”), although life isn’t always a beach for Tom Jordan and Mitch Thompson. As its title suggests, the gentle “Breakups” catalogs the pain of heartbreak (“All I wanna do is hear your voice/Pretend it doesn’t hurt like hell”), a theme that also reverberates through the title track. With this EP, produced entirely by Jordan in the pair’s home studio, the duo—who take their name from the Sydney suburb in which they were raised before moving to Nashville in 2017—succeed in making the personal universal, resulting in a soundtrack for the ups and downs life has to offer.