Sydney alt-rock five-piece Finding Better Health have dropped a new track with one of the more unexpected backstories you’ll hear this year – and no, it’s not metaphorical. Their guitarist is literally a stuntman.
Fresh off the return that was ‘The Morning’, their first release in two years, the band are back with ‘The Autumn’, a punchy, emotionally loaded cut lifted from their forthcoming debut EP A Place I Once Called Home. And while it hits hard sonically, the reason it exists is pretty simple: it’s about what it feels like when one of your closest mates keeps disappearing for months at a time… because he’s off working on blockbuster film sets.
Finding Better Health – ‘The Autumn’
Lead guitarist Riley Suter has been doing stunt work since he was six years old – his first credit landing on Superman Returns – and while that’s undeniably sick, it also means he’s often not around for a lot of band life. Rehearsals missed. Time zones crossed. Life happening in fragments. ‘The Autumn’ lives right in that tension.
As singer Harry Belcher puts it, the song is basically a platonic love letter with a bit of self-awareness baked in.
“I couldn’t be more stoked to watch my best friend living out his dream,” he says. “But with that overwhelming pride comes a selfish sadness, because such an integral part of his life relies upon his absence.”
Rather than trying to dress that up, ‘The Autumn’ sits in the discomfort – big chorus, rising urgency, and a sense that the wheels might fall off at any second.
Musically, it’s the band at their most immediate yet. Still emo-leaning, still expansive, but tighter, sharper, and more willing to let things break a little. It’s another step toward what A Place I Once Called Home is shaping up to be: a debut EP that pulls together years of songwriting and strips it down to what actually matters.
Alongside the single, Finding Better Health have also announced their first Australian east coast tour, bringing a stacked lineup of rising local acts along for the ride – including Tallulah and Gratitude.
‘The Autumn’ was recorded, mixed and mastered by Clayton Segelov and Angie Watson at The Brain Studios and is out now wherever you stream your tunes.
It’s a song about distance, love, and learning how to let people go do the thing they were always meant to do – even when it hurts a bit. And honestly? That’s a pretty solid reason to write a song.
Peep Finding Better Health’s full list of tour dates down below, and keep an ear peeled for A Place I Once Called Home dropping on February 6.
Finding Better Health 2026 East Coast Tour Dates
- Fri, 13th February – Trocadero Room, Sydney w/ Our Mutual Friend, Charles Carnabuci and Should Be Sweet
- Fri, 20th February – Hamilton Station Hotel, Newcastle w/ Trophy Wyfe, Gratitude and Talkhouse
- Sat, 21st February – Society City, Wollongong w/ Tallulah and special guests
+ more dates TBA
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