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You know that feeling where you’re watching a band for the first time and realising you’re probably gonna spend a fair chunk of your time listening to them in the future?

I do. It happened to me when I first saw dust playing at West Best Bloc Fest in Newy. The room was packed, the sound wasn’t great, but the energy was electric. dust opened up a this sonically lush black hole and you could see everyone around you getting sucked in. Those are the kind of live music experiences we live for.

Now the group have returned with more brooding post punk goodness following their breakthrough EP et cetera etc in the form of ‘Trust U See’. The track is a chaotic five mins with punchy verses and doom-lullaby breakdowns. Guitars and saxophone siren throughout as co-frontman Justing Teale’s vocals are sprayed into the track that is simultaneously filled with tension and beauty.

The band describe the track as an “alarming and visceral sonic exploration of both literal and underlying feelings. Justin’s literal lyrical recount of searching for pain relief and feeling frustrated is paralleled with metaphorical messages of trust, relationships and frustration. ‘TRUST U SEE’ became a staple opening song in the live set, forming it organically into the final version of the song before taking it to the studio. We were able to have a new outlook on recording and experimentation. It was our first time recording properly in a studio and we were able to be very hands on and take time in post production to get the song to express what we wanted.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_KBEG5oIiM

‘Trust U See’ also comes with the recent release of remixes of et cetera, etc, with contributions from Godriguez, 700 Feel, GAUCI, Fritz and baby bruh plus Soul Wun. For the band, this re-imagination of their original compositions posed an “exciting opportunity to collaborate with some of our favourite artists and show our interest in genres outside our own. We intentionally withheld prompts or any guide and let each artist take any angle they wanted, with whichever song, and show their own sound. We wanted each song to be different and contrast each other while still keeping the energy of the original on the EP.”

The band will also be playing a couple of shows in Aus before jetting off to Europe to support Interpol…

TOUR DATES
Sat 27 Apr – Bootleggers – Eora / Sydney, AU [SOLD OUT]
Fri 3 May – The Nightcat – Naarm / Melbourne, AU
Sat 19 Oct – Cirkus – Stockholm, SE
Sun 20 Oct – The Koncerthuset – Copenhagen, DE
Tue 29 Oct – Paradiso – Amsterdam,  NL
Wed 30 Oct – Paradiso – Amsterdam, NL
Fri 1 Nov – The Halls – Wolverhampton, ENG
Sat 2 Nov – The Apollo – Manchester, ENG [SOLD OUT]
Mon 4 Nov – Royal Concert Hall – Glasglow, SCO [SOLD OUT]
Tue 5 Nov – 02 City Hall – Newcastle, ENG
Thu 7 Nov – Beacon – Bristol, ENG [SOLD OUT]
Fri 8 Nov – Alexandra Palace – London, ENG
Sat 10 Nov – 3Arena – Dublin, IRE

Tickets available HERE.

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