Andrew and Matt Como learned to play music the way their whole family did, by jamming together at every party, their dad on drums and their Uncle Lawrence leading the room with songs he’d written decades earlier in a band called The Words. That inheritance runs directly through Whisper In The Wind, a seventeen-track record that moves between pop-rock, country crossover, folk singer-songwriter material, and harmony-heavy retro pop without ever losing the thread the brothers have pointed to themselves: storytelling songs like “The Ride,” “Wanna Be,” and “Your Baby I’ll Be” hold the genre shifts together even when the sound underneath them changes from track to track.
Opener “Halo or Wings” arrives with real professional weight behind it, co-written with Joe Ragosta, a platinum songwriter who helped write Jelly Roll’s “Need a Favor” and fronts the pop-rock band Patent Pending. Ragosta also co-wrote “Life With You,” and the pairing makes sense: both songs lean on big, direct hooks built for a room to sing back, the kind of craft a genre-hopping tracklist needs anchoring it early. “Life With You” itself shows up twice on the record, first as a stripped acoustic version at track seven, then in full arrangement as the album’s closer, a structural choice that lets the same declaration, “the only life worth living is a life with you,” land twice with two completely different amounts of weight behind it. The acoustic version keeps the song’s extended opening metaphor exposed and plain, a beach without an ocean, a guitar with no strings, before the closing version gives it a full band to lean on.
“I Don’t Like You” carries a backstory that gives its blunt, unfussy hook real stakes. Matt wrote it about a girl he didn’t like, Andrew helped finish it, and their Uncle Lawrence, who’d spent years critiquing the brothers’ live shows song by song in a notebook, was convinced it was a hit before he passed away in 2023. The track that finally arrived keeps that plainspoken confidence intact, a chorus built entirely around refusing someone access, “get out of my face, it’s really just not your place,” delivered with more bite than most breakup-adjacent songs bother reaching for.
“Somewhere In This Cup” and the title track “Whisper In The Wind” both feature Sam Woolf, the singer who reached a national audience himself through American Idol, and the pairing puts two different paths to visibility on the same tracklist, a family band that broke through on social media alongside a collaborator who broke through on network television a decade earlier. Both routes end up serving the same goal here, songs built to actually connect with an audience rather than just impress one.
The record’s emotional center sits at “All I Want Is You,” a re-recording of their late Uncle Lawrence’s original song from his band The Words. Bringing that song onto a Como Brothers album extends the exact family jam sessions that taught Andrew and Matt how to play in the first place, their uncle’s songwriting given a second life inside the band he helped inspire. As the brothers told Queen’s Gazette, they still ask themselves “what would Uncle Lawrence think or do” when they’re writing or playing live, and “All I Want Is You” is the clearest evidence on the record of what that question actually produces.
That family throughline matters even more given how the Como Brothers spent the last year building an audience in the first place. Their Beatles cover of “I Feel Fine” won American Songwriter’s Covered Promotion and pulled in over a million and a half views in a single day, part of a run of viral covers that took their combined social following from tens of thousands to well over a hundred thousand in under a year. Releasing three full live Beatles cover albums alongside Whisper In The Wind comes from the same instinct that built this band in the first place, learning a catalog inside and out until the mechanics of songwriting become second nature, then turning that knowledge back toward songs that are entirely their own.
The Comos have spent over a decade earning that range the only way that works, playing whatever room would have them: 225 shows one year, 256 the next, each one a test of whether a song actually lands before it reaches a record. Whisper In The Wind sounds like a band cashing in sixteen years of that work all at once, genre shifts and all landing exactly where they’re aimed.
Whisper In The Wind is available now.
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