Aus alt-punk trio Shady Nasty release debut album TREK

PRAISE FOR SHADY NASTY

"Shady Nasty’s music has always sounded like an engine revving: all menacing snarls
and noxious guitars through a pungent fog of exhaust"
The Guardian Australia

"The trio’s sound is as inscrutable as ever: lyrics are written like text exchanges between
gym junkies while the instrumentals are jenga towers of hip-hop beats,
slowcore guitars and punk vocals"
NME

"Jittery and tense blasts of sketchy rock that sounds like kids born in the late 90s have
discovered some early Helmet or Mark of Cain records. This is good rowdy stuff"
VICE

"The Australian trio's sound can turn on a dime between ethereally pretty and menacingly dark"
Kerrang!

"The atmosphere is unsettling in a similar way to Show Me The Body’s songs"
Stereogum

“CAREDBRAH has one of my favourite lines to come out of a release this year”
Luka Muller (triple j)

TREK, Shady Nasty’s triumphant debut album has arrived today, on the heels of their national album tour this April. LISTEN HERE. 

Rumours of Shady Nasty’s debut full-length have followed the group since first sparking cult notoriety from 2017. The classically trained musicians ditching the orthodoxy arrive today with a vision clear. Enlisting the production work of The Presets’ Kim Moyes, where the band’s earlier releases were heavily stylised depictions of contemporary Sydney life, TREK is a time capsule of the group at their most creatively forthright, a candid retelling of their trials, tribulations and obsessions. 

The sum of all parts Shady Nasty have endured in its making, TREK is a portrait of the journey, just as it battles with the reality of what it takes to reach any goal or destination. Enhancing the impressive world-building of their seminal EPs, TREK is a lean and potent 8 track debut. Unashamedly honest - as the group have always been - in breaking new narrative terrain on the less-than-glamorous graft of keeping afloat while chasing ambition. 

Speaking on the record's production, Kim Moyes shares, "Hard to draw comparisons with a band like Shady Nasty. They hold a unique place in Sydney and have built something they can truly claim as their own. It’s a universe that is inspired, oftentimes challenging, and yet somehow always fulfilling. Their commitment to developing their own sonic skid-mark combined with such a brilliant visual identity—an uncompromising pursuit of individuality—is undeniable. I’m proud to have played a small part in this chapter of their story. Love those guys."

Vignettes of their world told through Shady Nasty’s singular harbour city twang - horizons “clear as fuark” to the slang aphorisms in their trilogy of singles ‘SCREWDRIVA’, ‘CAREDBRAH’ and ‘HARDSTYLE’ - the very real effects of the corporate playground they call home like the cost of living, housing crises to familial and social expectations put dreaming into perspective. What if pursuing something at any cost might actually land you nowhere at all?

A growing rift between old friends lies at the heart of ‘HESITANCE’, where letting go is sometimes straight catharsis. Short sharp interlude ‘AE38’ rewrites the legend of the Toyota Sprinter car made popular by the Initial D anime series while TREK’s most forlorn moment is ‘I.D.W.L. (I Don’t Wanna Lose)’ bound by Shady’s heaviest autotune armour and beating-heart percussion to reveal a psyche burdened by the expectations of loved ones. The album’s comedown ‘2008’ yearns for a less globally networked time when suburbia was the fabric of our social lives. 

Shrouded in layers of metaphor and symbolism, TREK reconciles with many rites of passage to birth a group confident in bleeding authenticity. Side by side with the playful oddity and intrigue that only Shady have been able to master: maintaining the utmost respect of the underground as affectionately as they court interest from the industry. A departure from the impatient optimism of their younger selves, TREK chronicles the evolution of Shady Nasty’s individual lives - an uncompromising embrace of breaking free from the shackles of expectation. 
 

TREK by Shady Nasty is out now, buy/stream here

TRACKLIST
G-SHOCK
HARDSTYLE
HESITANCE
SCREWDRIVA
AE86
I.D.W.L. (I Don’t Wanna Lose)
CAREDBRAH
2008

TOUR DATES
Tue 4 Mar - Metro Theatre - Eora / Sydney*
Thu 24 Apr - The Trocadero Room - Eora / Sydney [SOLD OUT]
Fri 25 Apr - Bootleggers - Eora / Sydney [NEW SHOW ADDED]
Sat 26 Apr - The Retreat - Naarm / Melbourne [SOLD OUT]
Sun 4 May - Black Bear Lodge - Meanjin / Brisbane [SELLING FAST]
*supporting Shame

Tickets available HERE

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ABOUT SHADY NASTY
Inspired by the likes of King Krule, Low Life and Show Me The Body and informed by backgrounds in jazz and classical music, Shady Nasty subvert expectations. A world bound by modding cars, immigrant heritage and digital obsessions, Kevin Stathis, Haydn Green and Luca Watson, together play a left-field breed of punk that recalibrates their formal training to its most uncustomary extremes. Their second EP CLUBSMOKE, a blurry-eyed meditation on vlogging, gymming, clubbing and clout, the group saw international acclaim from NME, Stereogum, Kerrang, DIY, New Noise, BPM, and locally from triple j’s Home and Hosed and Unearthed, fbi.radio, 2SER, RAGE and more, the success taking the group to their debut UK/EU tour with a sold-out Oxford Art Factory home show. More recently the group appeared on stages with High Vis, Amyl and The Sniffers, Parramatta Lanes plus SXSW Sydney, Parramatta Lanes. Wherever they play and no matter the room size, devout adherents clammer to propel a heaving mosh.