Over the last few months, Australian trio daste. have been building the anticipation for their upcoming album with a collection of great new singles including “Around”, “Colours”, “Atlas” and “Starwriter”.
Their new album is set for release in February 2025, and between now and then we can expect a few more little teasers, which they are coming good on this week as they share their next single ‘River’.
“‘River’ was a really rich collaborative experience. We spent a few days in the hinterland behind Yamba in New South Wales and were lucky to be joined by our good friends Aidan Rahman and Jess Cameron. They came through on our second day and we immediately got stuck in to jamming.Once we had the first chord progression down, we all sort of sat around the living room and bounced melodies and lyrics one another until the skeleton of the song was finally formed. We knew we’d definitely landed on something special both in sound and song meaning
As we bounced melodies and lyrics amongst one another we naturally started to write about the idea oflove being so wonderful but so scary all the same. Heartbreak can cause fear of love itself and make ithard for you to openup to anyone or be vulnerable again. This song embraces love and the idea of justjumping into the unknown.
Fast forward about three months and we found ourselves in LA working out of Jim Alxndr’s studio where wedissected the track and added a lot of organic sounds to enrich its fun loving, live nature, including theupright piano which definitely brought the initial vision to life.” ~Callum MacDonald (of daste.)
Back in August, daste. embarked on a three-date Australian tour which saw them playing to a SOLD-OUT audience Sydney. Shortly after wrapping up those shows, the band made their way to North America for their debut headline tour, which had them playing New York City, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Austin, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Seattle.
Australian fans can catch daste. playing live across the country in February as they support Still Woozy on his Australian tour (see dates below).
They’re also making plans for another North American tour in early 2025, and they’ve just been announced to play Cross The Tracks Festival in London next May (tickets here)-you can be sure they won’t be going all the way over there just for the one show..
Still Woozy Australian Tour (tickets)
Tuesday, February 4th-Astor Theatre, Perth
Thursday, February 6th-Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide
Friday, February 7th-Forum, Melbourne
Tuesday, February 11th-Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Wednesday, February 12th-Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane
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