"Brother" is the first single released from Australian indie rock band Little Birdy's third studio album, Confetti.
[2] Originally offered as a free download,[3][4] the song is also the fifth track on the "Summarize" single.
The song is written by singer and guitarist Katy Steele and features Paul Kelly on backing vocals and harmonica, but for live performances and in the music video for the song, bassist Scott ('Barney') O'Donoghue plays the harmonica.
We kinda felt like he joined our band for that day and that was a pretty great feeling.The song, according to Matt Chequer, was a last minute addition to the album while the band recorded at Melbourne's Sing Sing Studios.
I dunno what it is about their two voices, because separately you’d think that they wouldn’t work, but they do sound really lovely together I think.In an interview on Triple J when Steele was queried whether the song was about her brother Luke, she responded "It's about a lot of things.