Shady Nasty, legionaries of Australia’s post-punk landscape, today triumphantly announce their debut album TREK out on Feb 21, 2025. Marking the occasion is the group’s latest emphatic release, ‘CAREDBRAH’. LISTEN HERE + WATCH HERE + PRE-SAVE LP HERE.

In the insular city of Sydney, securing the hometown allegiance that Shady Nasty have is no flash in the pan. Sparking local notoriety since 2017, TREK is a statement of intent fully realised – “we want to win.” As is their wont, their debut is a lean 8 track extension of the critically acclaimed world building from their EPs Bad Posture and CLUBSMOKE. A summit, all in spite of its 21 minute run time with ambition proudly on their chest.

Produced by Kim Moyes of The Presets, TREK’s journey refracts against universal stories of friendship, living to work and working to live, social expectations in growing older, nostalgia for the innocence of suburbia and imposter syndrome. Where earlier releases presented augmented versions of the Shady Nasty they were dreaming to be, TREK sees the cult band let loose the shackles of a tough exterior to bleed authenticity.

WATCH: ‘CAREDBRAH’ (Official Video)

Joining earlier releases ‘G-SHOCK’ and ‘HARDSTYLE’, today’s ‘CAREDBRAH’ is considered an evolution for the group, bound by melodic chords and an overt sense of care as direct as ever – “Always knew you had the guts brah.” True friends don’t let their divergent worlds, day job or or otherwise, break them apart. An emotionally resonant ode to mateship. It’s grand transformation for the three piece, unafraid to shatter some of the bravado through their token digital filter.

“CAREDBRAH reflects on a friendship between two kids headed down opposing paths,” Shady Nasty explain. “A decade later, one in an Armani suit at work drinks and the other smashing a servo pie for lunch, they still turn to each other for an honesty that newer friends fail to deliver.” Arriving with visuals directed by Luca Watson (drummer) and Harry Welsh, they explain, “CAREDBRAH’s music video sets adrift on hypnotic and subconscious vignettes of Shady Nasty’s Sydney; whether it be the ritual beauty of heavy exercise or of washing a beloved car in suburbia, the clip seeks solitude, real or imagined, that might reset and restore our mind.”

Shady Nasty are a band built on tough tenderness, making prose from the banality of routine and existential aphorisms from slang; the post-punk anthropologists translate life stages through a digitised output with commentary on masculinity, the growing blur of our on and offline footprint, and the branded totems of culture. “That’s the world we live in, isn’t it? Bit of Balenciaga, bit of Salomon.”

Experience TREK live this summer, where Shady Nasty will appear at the inaugural Hazard Festival (Steel City Dance Discs, Astral People), alongside Samba Boys (KETTAMA & Tommy Holohan), Purient, 3NDLES5 & Crazymike and others, with more shows to be announced soon.