‘It Always Can Get Worse’, is a new single by Tex Perkins and Matt Walker released alongside news that the duo will be releasing an album on which they have collaborated.
Built around acoustic guitars and the unmistakable gravity of Perkins’ voice, the single reflects on endurance without slipping into self-pity. Its central idea is deceptively simple: difficult times are survivable, perspective matters, and dwelling too deeply inside your own suffering can become its own trap. Perkins and Walker deliver it without melodrama or false uplift. Instead, the song moves with the quiet steadiness of two musicians who have spent decades observing people, roads, bars and bad decisions from close range.
That understated approach appears to shape the broader mood of Before The Show, the duo’s debut full-length together, due in August via Cheersquad Records & Tapes. While Perkins and Walker have worked together across projects including The Cruel Sea and The Fat Rubber Band, this album seems designed to spotlight the chemistry that has quietly existed between them for years. There’s an ease to the collaboration that feels lived-in rather than manufactured.
For Perkins especially, whose career has often moved between swaggering rock’n’roll, gothic storytelling and strange left turns, the track lands as another reminder that some of his most affecting work emerges when he lowers the volume rather than raises it.
Listen to ‘It Always Can Get Worse’ HERE.
