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Photo by Charlie Hardy

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DUST
soar on debut album
SKY IS FALLING
out now

+ Announce UK/EU and
US/CA headline tours
for 2026

+ AUS Headline Tour
this December

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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’s anticipated debut album Sky Is Falling has landed. The group will continue to soar into 2026 with news of a major tour junket across the UK and EU in January and co-headline with The Belair Lip Bombs in North America in March-April. Early December, dust will celebrate the release locally across their December album tour run. All tickets are on sale now. LISTEN HERE + BUY TICKETS HERE.

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. In this moment at a loss for words, “the sky is falling” seemed the only way to summarise the phenomenon.

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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. That phrase would take on new life as a shorthand for the quiet dread of change, signalling the vast opportunity ahead of the five friends.

About the record, dust says, “We wrote most of this debut album between gigs, late nights and weekend sessions in Newcastle. It’s a mix of songs that came together very naturally with some exciting collaboration processes which was new to us. We’ve naturally integrated a variety of genres that we have been listening to and passionate about. We’re very excited to finally deliver it and see how it connects with people. It feels good to have something out there that sounds like us at this moment in time.”

Magnifying the potential that would define dust’s creative paths, “sky is falling” caused pause – a ‘stamp’ for a new phase and mourn a past version of themselves. Born from personal and collective anxieties around fractured relationships, social unrest, the slow collapse of the familiar and growing old in a dilapidating world. Each member brings lived experience and a sharpened artistic vision to the table, pushing songwriting and production into bold, unconventional territory.

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At its core Sky Is Falling captures a journey – from uncertainty and nihilism to a fragile kind of peace. Rooted in the blue and teeming with self-inquiry, dust share a concerned meditation on stasis, alluding to the crushing burdens of everyday life. 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.”

Musically dark and lyrically terse, the tracklist grows slower with each new song. Veering from frenetic expectation, dust play with electronic experimentalism side-by-side with elusive saxophone arrangements and abrasive guitar lines. Dancing with despair while slouching towards the future they uneasily attempt to define, Sky Is Falling presents the constant search for meaning against the swinging doors of perception and views atop melancholy hill.

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Moments like ’Drawbacks’ and ‘Just Like Ice’ pulse with intricate drum patterns and syncopated tension, the latter basking in the purgatory of time in between moments of purpose – “a waiting room for the psyche.” Elsewhere ‘Alastair’ and ‘Two Dogs’ lean into space, tenderness, and the slow unraveling of emotion. ‘Aside’ longs not for the past itself, but for solitude amongst constant acceleration while ‘Fairy’ reflects on childhood naivety.

The group’s practice of refined chaos shines on ‘Swamped’, while trudging genre-agnostic forays into slowcore and lo-fi pop as the melismatic ‘Restless‘. ‘Day Tight’ offers a critique on self help culture despite being deeply intoxicated with its practice, as ‘Swamped’ offers a return to the group’s practice of refined chaos. Closer ‘In Reverie’ offers an equally eerie yet reassuring spoken word exhale.

Delivering a deep excavation of the weight we all carry, Sky Is Falling balances dissonance with restraint, tension with release. Immersive, cohesive, and built to be experienced front to back, preferably with a cold beer, a setting sun, or the open road ahead. Celebrate the release with dust this weekend as they take to the east coast for a series of free album signings and performances in Sydney (tonight), Wollongong, Melbourne and Newcastle. More info + tour routing details BELOW.

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Sky Is Falling LP is out now, buy/stream it here

SKY IS FALLING
Tracklist

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

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Album Release Week

Fri 10 Oct – The Lord Gladstone – Eora / Sydney
Sat 11 Oct – Which Way Now, Sky Is Falling launch – Dharawal Land / Bellambi

SKY IS FALLING
Album Tour

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]

2026 Tour Dates

Sun 18 Jan – Oporto – Leeds, UK
Mon 19 Jan – The Hug And Pint – Glasgow, UK
Tue 20 Jan – YES – Manchester, UK
Thu 22 Jan – The George Tavern – London, UK
Fri 23 Jan – The Hope & Ruin – Brighton, UK
Sat 24 Jan – Exchange – Bristol, UK
Mon 26 Jan – Le POPUP Du Label – Paris, FR
Wed 28 Jan – Haldern Pop Bar – Haldern, DE
Thu 29 Jan – V11 – Rotterdam, NL
Tue 24 Mar – Brick & Mortar – Ohlone Land / San Francisco, CA*
Thu 26 Mar – Polaris Hall – Chinookan Land / Portland, OR*
Fri 27 Mar – Baba Yaga – Si’ahl / Seattle, WA*
Mon 30 Mar – Kilby Court – Pi’a-pa / Salt Lake City, UT*
Tue 31 Mar – Hi-Dive – Apache Land / Denver, CO*
Thu 2 Apr – White School House – Kansa Land / Lawrence, KS / Kansas City, MO*
Fri 3 Apr – Turf Club – Dakhóta Land / Minneapolis, MN*
Sat 4 Apr – Empty Bottle – shikaakwa / Chicago, IL*
Mon 6 Apr – The Garrison – Tkaronto / Toronto, ON*
Thu 9 Apr – Night Club 101 – Lenape Land / New York, NY*
Fri 10 Apr – Baby’s All Right – Lenape Land / New York, NY*
Sat 11 Apr – PhilaMOCA – Coaquannock / Philadelphia, PA*
Sun 12 Apr – Songbyrd – Nacotchtank Land / Washington, DC*
Mon 13 Apr – Kings – Algonquian Land / Raleigh, NC*
Wed 15 Apr – Blue Room @ Third Man Records – Cherokee, Chickasaw Land / Nashville, TN*
Thu 16 Apr – The Earl – Muscogee, Cherokee Land / Atlanta, GA*
Sat 18 Apr – Sons of Hermann Hall – Nermernuh Land / Dallas, TX*
Sun 19 Apr – 29th Street Ballroom – Tonkawa Land / Austin, TX*
Wed 22 Apr – Rebel Lounge – Hohokam Land / Phoenix, AZ*
Thu 23 Apr – The Casbah – Kumeyaay / San Diego, CA*
Fri 24 Apr – Zebulon – Tongva Land / Los Angeles, CA*
*Co-headline with The Belair Lip Bombs

Tickets available at www.dust-band.com

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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AMNPLIFY – DB