FOLLOW DURRY ON SOCIAL MEDIA HERE INSTAGRAM | TIKTOK | YOUTUBE 08th September 2023, emerging sibling duo Durry release their new album Suburban Legend via Big Pip Records and Thirty Tigers. The album is an epic tale beating the odds and escaping suburbia, gaining the freedom to pursue art freely. It is wryly self-aware and deeply relatable, grappling with issues such as mental health, toxic masculinity, and modern capitalism. Listen to Suburban Legend here. Invoking alternative, pop, and pop-punk influences such as Weezer, Sum 41, the White Stripes, and the Killers, Suburban Legend is produced by vocalist Austin. Engineered by the singer’s longtime collaborator Jack Vondrachek, and contains 12 songs packed with energy, gumption, and razor-sharp lyricism that explores themes around suburbia, capitalism, mundanity, ambition, perseverance, passion, mental health — and Taco Bell. Heavily influenced by their own experiences growing up in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Durry channel their own fears, dreams, and struggles to create an album that feels painfully relevant yet intensely nostalgic. After posting an unfinished version of track ‘Who’s Laughing Now’ on TikTok, it swiftly took off, galvanising thousands of viewers who shared their coming-of-age frustrations – full story here. Clearly, the song’s sentiments resonated with millions of listeners, and today the song has garnered more than four million Spotify streams. Meanwhile, Durry have recorded a fully fleshed-out version of ‘Who’s Laughing Now’ which is set to appear on the LP. The immediate result of their musical partnership was the pop-punk/alternative anthem ‘Who’s Laughing Now’, which leads with wry, tongue-in-cheek lyrics about the futility of young adulthood in 2023: “My mama always said I would regret it if I ever got a tattoo,” Austin chants, adding: “She said I’d never get a job like I ever wanted one with that attitude/ My dad said I had to learn to drive a stick shift, but every van I ever had was an automatic/ My friends said that someday I would make it big, but I’m still living in the basement.” Kicking off with the energy-blasted ‘Coming Of Age’, Durry reimagine Dolly Parton’s classic workplace-woes anthem ‘9 To 5’ with their own vivacious ode to quitting corporate life. Partially inspired by Neo’s drone-like cubicle job in the first Matrix film, ‘Coming Of Age’ is packed with “classic office-y tropes,” Austin says. “It’s about the drudgery of office work, quitting, and fighting against the can-do career mindset attitude.” Meanwhile, the arena-filler ‘TKO’ recalls Austin’s first date with his now-wife at Taco Bell. Blending punk-rock chords and a stomp-clap chorus, the singer looks back at moments of self-consciousness and insecurity. “It’s for the people who are dating out of their league,” he jokes. “It’s self-deprecating, but it’s also lifting up the other person. It’s very autobiographical.” Whether Suburban Legend is tackling romantic love, late-stage capitalism, mental health woes, or teen nostalgia, the thread tying it all together is its utter relatability. “There are songs for millennials and Gen Z,” Austin says. “There are songs where you’re at your office job, you’re a grown up and you don’t like it. Then there are others that are like, you’re a teenager at the mall. That’s part of what we’re trying to do: give Millennials nostalgia triggers but also give Gen Z a present-day anthem.” Regardless of where you are in life — city or suburbs, school or work, or pursuing a creative dream of your own — Durry will meet you there with a wink and a high five. | 
