dust, the Australian alternative/post-punk group, announce their debut album Sky Is Falling, due 10 October via Kanine Records. The plunge for the ascendant post-punk outfit comes with the brand new single ‘Drawbacks’.
An extension of their formative debut style, ‘Drawbacks’ pummels with textured chord progressions and abrasive lyrics. Justin Teale’s words of personal frustration and isolation that offer glimpses of love and hope; Kye Cherry’s frenetic drum backing and Liam Smith’s persistent bass groove bolsters Gabe Stove’s guitar and Adam Ridgway’s woozy saxophone from gust to boiling point. Written wholly collaboratively, bleeding between anguish and desperation ‘Drawbacks’ is dust in full force.
Of the single, Justin explains:
“‘Drawbacks’ is about everyday feelings and thoughts that one experiences and leaning towards the ones that make you confused or in doubt. Feelings of shame and regret in social surroundings where you should feel comfortable, and you can’t shake off the head noise. I guess this song is a way of talking to myself in the same way I do with my thoughts without sounding pretentious. With the vocal delivery being so quick it almost portrays as a word vomit of the things that you say to yourself in your head. The people around me I love and am very inspired by, I look up to them and notice how they deal with social settings and communication, it almost feels like I’m studying them.”
The announcement extends to news of their signing for US bookings representation with Ground Control Touring’s Lindsay Ibberson. Elated, she shares: “I could not be more excited to welcome dust to GCT. I am thrilled to play a role in telling their story over here in the states – let’s get after it!”
dust’s evolution continues on debut Sky Is Falling. Their sound, grounded in genre defiance and reinvention, shoegaze and electronic experimentalism side-by-side with elusive saxophone arrangements and abrasive guitar lines, is firmly rooted in melancholia and self-inquiry. Anarchic propulsion that denotes Geese to Double Virgo level extremities, with blissful nods to the classics, Sonic Youth, and My Bloody Valentine.
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