Dunes announce new album ‘Land Of The Blind’

November 10, 2024 James Weaver

DUNES have announced a new album!

Titled Land Of The Blind, the upcoming album from the Newcastle-based stoner rock band is the follow-up to 2022’s Gargoyle, and is scheduled to be released in January next year, via Ripple Music.

In November 2023 DUNES headed up to Old Church Studios in Thropton, Northumberland in the far North of England to record Land Of The Blind with Adam Forster acting as studio engineer and DUNES drummer Nikky Watson as producer. The fantastic old church has a great-sounding room and an otherworldly atmosphere, allowing the band to fully immerse themselves into the making of the album. Alongside special guest Ryan Garney from HIGH DESERT QUEEN on the second single Voodoo, the album also features Nick Carter (formerly of the legendary Newcastle-based post-punk outfit CRANE) on the song Northern Scar.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, DUNES have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Voodoo. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming album, Riding The Low, which was released back in September.

Speaking about the new song, the band shares, “Voodoo is about those times when you feel you ‘can’t do right for doing wrong’ as the saying goes, you try but it still goes belly up anyway. The track features Ryan Garney from HIGH DESERT QUEEN, we played together when they first came over to the UK in 2022 and we’ve been great friends since then. When we toured together in 2023 he joined us on stage a bunch of times, so when it came to writing and recording the new album we figured it’d be fun to have him sing on a song. We gave him free rein to add some tasty backing vocals and we were stoked with what he sent back.”

Watch the official music video for Voodoo here: