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, 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.”

WATCH: Restless (Official Video)

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.