Dune Rats announce new album ‘Hurry Up and Wait’

DUNE RATS have announced a new album!

Titled Hurry Up and Wait, the upcoming album from the Australian trio is the follow up to the 2017 Australian Number 1 album The Kids Will Know Its Bullshit and is scheduled to be released in January next year.

The key to unlocking DUNE RATS’ third album was bringing everything back to where it all began, returning home after briefly testing the waters in America, swapping Calabasas for the Central Coast and super-producers for old mates. Working alongside producer James Tidswell (VIOLENT SOHO), engineer Mitch Kenny, producer/songwriter Miro Mackie and mixer Mike Green, the trio were given the time, trust and space to simply be themselves, making music at their own pace without anyone else trying to shape their much beloved, scuzzed-up stoner sound. The band credit Tidswell in particular, who they say was “an avid believer we shouldn’t go in with a super punk rock sound”, with encouraging them to explore different styles on the LP, pushing them to “really try to make a record that we’re proud of”.

DUNE RATS Lead singer Danny Beus explains that the evolution reflects changes in the trio’s personal lives. ”We don’t want to be the ‘Scott Green’ band forever. We didn’t set out to make a big album, or a polished album, or an album about partying because the last one did alright, or an album not about partying because we want to get away from that. It’s just writing about different stuff in our lives. It was always just going to be Dunies.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first song from the upcoming album; titled Crazy. Speaking about the new song, the band says, “Crazy is one of our heavier songs that we wrote over in LA when we were surrounded by a lot of excess. Everyone is doing anything and everything because it’s available, whether it’s taking drugs, eating shitty food or being surrounded by technology. All this stuff at the end of the day, whilst awesome at the time, doesn’t leave you any better off even if it feels that way in the moment.”

Listen to Crazy here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:

Track List: 

1. Intro
2. Bobby D
3. Rubber Arm
4. No Plans
5. Rock Bottom
6. Crazy
7. Patience
8. Bad Habits
9. Stupid Is As Stupid Does (feat. K-Flay)
10. If My Bong Could Talk
11. The Skids
12. Mountains Come And Go But Aussie Pub Rock Lives On (Forever)

Hurry Up and Wait is set for release on January 31st via Ratbag Records/BMG.

For more information on DUNE RATS like their official page on Facebook.