dust share new single ‘Restless’

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Debut album Sky Is Falling out October 10th via Kanine Records

dust | Photo credit: Charlie Hardy

PRAISE FOR DUST

“Their glowering yet ultra-melodic tunes represent everything exciting about post-punk’s latest wave of young practitioners”
NME

“Absorbing everything from Joy Division to Iceage into their DNA, the band’s shimmering, sub-zero electronics add a frosted, almost marbled aspect to their sound”
CLASH

“Their live show blew me away and I had to check out their music”
Nabihah Iqbal

“A classic post-punk quality to it… Refreshing in terms of how lush and smothering they all sound”
Anthony Fantano (theneedledrop)

“Creating music set to shake up your senses and truly leave an impact”
triple j Unearthed (Feature Artist)

dust present the trudging and militant ‘Restless,’ a highlight and final single from their forthcoming debut album. Sky Is Falling, set for release on Oct 10 via Kanine Records, is poised to share their vision of a damaged, but ultimately, redemptive world. LISTEN HERE + PRE-SAVE LP HERE.

‘Restless’ plays tense, with the push-pull of Justin Teale and Gabe Stove trading melismatic verses. They contrast struggles with a shared, worrisome perspective – “maybe this love of restless is what I hate” – atop a cavernous instrumental, leading with a curious bass line and eerie, wailing sax. Reflective of the depth percolating on Sky Is Falling, ‘Restless’ underpins the record’s eternal grapple and longing for the betterment of humanity.

dust explain, “A salient figure wanders vagrantly as an onlooker to the atrocities of a post-capitalist world. Gabe’s vocal delivery is inherently slouched, nonchalant and defeated, providing a basis for what feels like a whirlpool of instrumentation wading towards the final phrases. The lyrics stretch across a spectrum of anguish, desire, frustration and lethargy–Justin loses connection with the one addicted to their own suffering like a pair of two that can’t align their world views.”

Pre-save debut album Sky Is Falling HERE.

Hear ‘Restless’ on streaming services here and watch the video below.

Continuing their plunge left, ‘Restless’ joins ‘Alastair,’ a slow-spun anthem of an intimate yet strange encounter that Paste celebrated for their “mix of intimacy, unease, and mild humor,” and the hard-fast ‘Drawbacks,’ turning heads at Stereogum, KEXP, BBC 6 Music and more for its “head-swirling post-punk excellence” (Wonderland). Just the latest in a longstanding stream of widespread acclaim that’s seen the group increasingly transition from a unique position in their local scene – not quite close enough to the major city scenes nor far enough isolated away – to worldwide impact.

Aboard a DFDS ferry connecting France to the United Kingdom, Justin Teale, Gabriel Stove, Adam Ridgeway, Liam Smith and Kye Cherry shared an exhausted gaze upon shattered cloud cover, sandwiched between the green planes of Calais and the White Sea cliffs of Dover. That experience would signal the vast opportunity ahead of the five friends. A moment of a loss for words where “the sky is falling” seemed the only way to summarize the infinite and indefinite possibilities ahead.

Since their breakout in 2023 and much to their own joy and disbelief, dust have buoyed from inconceivable life moments to the nihilistic lull of coming home and carrying on, despite having the world on their horizon. Forged through years on the road, in sharehouses, and deep within the walls of rehearsal rooms, their debut album is a raw yet refined document of a band that lived every second of the record long before hitting record. Rooted in melancholia and self-inquiry, Sky Is Falling is a concerned meditation on stasis, alluding to the crushing burdens of everyday life.

Musically dark and lyrically terse, dust dance with despair, slouching towards the future they uneasily attempt to define. The tracklist grows gentle and blue with each new song, ruminating on shared anxieties of social injustice, loss and growing old in a dilapidating world. Complicated by the duality of fighting fear with hope, and guilt in the face of luck. Veering from frenetic expectation, they play with electronic experimentalism side-by-side with elusive saxophone arrangements and abrasive guitar lines. Delivering a deep excavation of the weight we all carry, Sky Is Falling is dust’s attempt at making sense of it all.

dust – Sky Is Falling album artwork

dust – Sky Is Falling album tracklisting

1. Drawbacks
2. Just Like Ice
3. Alastair
4. Two Dogs
5. Swamped
6. Restless
7. Aside
8. Fairy
9. Day Tight
10. In Reverie

ABOUT DUST

Formed against the backdrop of the pandemic in 2020, the project of Awabakal land / Newcastle-based dual guitarist-vocalists Gabriel Stove and Justin Teale, bassist Liam Smith, guitarist and saxophonist Adam Ridgway, and drummer Kye Cherry, dust offer an invigorating new take on Australian post-punk: progressive, catchy, and irresistible. Just as artistically motivated by the fragmented, free-genre steps of Yung Lean and Burial, merging experimental jazz and electronica into a sound as immediate as Inhaler and Violent Soho, this idiosyncratic joining of the fringes comes together much like their roots in Newcastle, and the band’s careful balance of in-betweens. Through their debut EP et cetera, etc dust set their sights on affirming their position in the local scene as vital and exciting. Born in the middle of periods of normalcy and uncertainty; not quite close enough to the major city scenes nor far enough isolated away; equally inspired by the groups making waves on both sides of the Pacific, dust take these keen observations to offer an invigorating take on Australian post-punk: progressive, catchy, and irresistible. In time, no doubt a contemporary answer to their hometown’s historic origins.