The Pleasures is the musical collaboration between Catherine Britt and Lachlan Bryan. It’s a partnership that began with an exchange of late-night texts that led, seemingly inevitably, to a manic week of writing and recording new songs together. The pair’s musical relationship was forged and reinforced during those days in Melbourne, creating late into the night before rising the next day to head into the studio.
Here is the new single from The Pleasures. ‘Was It Something I Said?’ was originally written while sitting around the table at a friend’s place in Nashville; it wasn’t properly recorded until returning to the UK and getting the band together. Britt and Bryan say of their collective approach to writing and playing: “Singing at each other has been a part of our sound since we started writing songs together – it gives us both a chance to put forward an alternate version of the same events.” Over a strong rhythm, grooving guitar and atmospheric keys, Britt opens the musical conversation before Bryan joins for the chorus, their voices complementing one another; his weary grit contrasting with her sweet melody. Like a heartfelt dialogue, an honest exchange, they take turns as the vocal focus, and this is the song’s great strength. Halfway through, a languid guitar solo follows a compelling tune as the song builds towards its conclusion. The video features the artists at work in studio footage, interspersed with images shot on location in an effective accompaniment to ‘Was It Something I Said?’
This was the first song written for the upcoming new album, “Enemy of My Enemy”, which is due out on 15th August 2025. The album brings together the pair’s different influences and distinctive sounds as performers in their own right. Bryan performed in Melbourne alt-country and rock band The Wildes, in which he became known for his songwriting prowess. On one of the band’s many dive-bar tours abroad, he met Britt at a late show in Austin, Texas; a productive partnership and ten years of great friendship followed. As for Britt, she signed for RCA Records in Nashville after Sir Elton John heard her music, decided to record with her and then introduced her to the label. Since then, she has toured and played with the likes of Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, and Dolly Parton, as well as winning the CMA International Artist of the Year Award.
