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Photo by Charlie Hardy

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DUST
showcase dual-
vocalist alchemy on
‘RESTLESS’
announce album
tour dates across
Dec supported by
SWAPMEET + BLUE DINER

Debut LP
SKY IS FALLING
Out Oct 10

Via Virgin Music Group

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Photo by Charlie Hardy

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Praise for DUST

“Even in their sweetest modes, dust have no problem complicating their sound to keep us on our toes. Looking for another great rock band with a saxophonist? They’re right here” Consequence (‘Alastair’)

“It’s always so impressive when someone figures out how to make post-punk into something pretty” Stereogum (‘Alastair’)

“Their glowering yet ultra-melodic tunes represent everything exciting about post-punk’s latest wave of young practitioners” NME 100 (2025)

“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: Next Wave

“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)

“To turn the head of a person walking toward the door and compelling them… that is an absolutely incredible thing. dust did that a couple hundred times that night in March in the sticky heat of Austin, Texas” Monster Children: Bright Young Things

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

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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 Virgin Music Group, is poised to share their vision of a damaged, but ultimately, redemptive world. Today the band announce a set of tour dates across December marking the album release, tickets are on-sale tomorrow Thursday Oct 4 from 10am AEST.

 LISTEN HERE + WATCH 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, slowly stricken by eerie bass and ghoulish saxophone. 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,” on ‘Restless’. “Gabe’s vocal delivery is inherently slouched, non-chalant 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.”

Continuing their plunge left, ‘Restless’ joins the Consequence branded “gem,” ‘Alastair‘, a slow-spun anthem of an intimate yet strange encounter 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.

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Photo by Charlie Hardy

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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 summarise 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. 

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SKY IS FALLING
Tracklist

Drawbacks
Just Like Ice
Alastair
Two Dogs
Swamped
Restless
Aside
Fairy
Day Tight
In Reverie

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TOUR DATES

4th Oct – Wanderer Festival – Yuin, Monaro Land / Pambula
9th Oct – Phoenix Central Park – Eora / Sydney
Fri 5 Dec – Jive – tarntanya / Adelaide [TIX HERE]
Sat 6 Dec – Black Bear Lodge – Meanjin / Brisbane [TIX HERE]
Fri 12 Dec – Oxford Art Factory – Eora / Syd [TIX HERE]
Sat 13 Dec – Evelyn Hotel – Naarm / Melbourne [TIX HERE]

Tickets available Here

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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 immediate post-punk, this idiosyncratic joining of the fringes comes together much like dust’s roots in Newcastle. Since first emerging with their iteration of Australian post-punk on debut EP et cetera, etc, the group have continued to dominate. dust’s industrially shaped rock, endemic to their steel city origins, has taken them out of this world: major continental tours across Australia, the UK and US supporting formative influences Slowdive, Interpol, Bloc Party, Protomartyr, and Militarie Gun, to stages with Hockey Dad, The Belair Lip Bombs, Armlock, Shady Nasty, and more. Industry alike clammer, word of mouth fever following them across un/official showcases at BIGSOUND, SXSW Austin and Sydney, The Great Escape to landing appearances at Laneway, Pitchfork Music Festival, London Calling – as Monster Children firmly put it, once you experience dust, you “will never be the same.”

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Follow DUST
Website – Instagram – Facebook
YouTube – Bandcamp

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Photo by Charlie Hardy

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