Fust/ Dead Gowns

Sun Apr 06 2025 at 07:00 pm to 11:30 pm UTC-04:00

The Half Moon | Hudson

The Half Moon
Publisher/HostThe Half Moon
Fust\/ Dead Gowns Durham, North Carolina-based band
About this Event

Fust — the Durham, North Carolina-based band — announce their new album, Big Ugly, outMarch 7th via Dear Life Records. Big Ugly arrives after the release of 2024’s Songs of theRail––

“one of the best alt-country compilations…in a long, long time” (Paste) –– and 2023’s

standout Genevieve, which unassumingly introduced new listeners to Fust’s unmistakable blendof “small-town poetry” (Mojo) with a familiar yet probing “country-tinged folk-rock” (KEXP) thatmade it “one of the most fun rock records of the year” (Pitchfork).

Big Ugly finds Fust taking its “gutsy, blue-collar Americana” (New Commute) further than it hasbefore. Songwriter Aaron Dowdy pushes his obsessions with country-storytelling to moremystifying places, telling stories of Southern life teeming with utopian possibility that arisesuniquely from the contradictions for which the south is infamously known. In this way, it is arecord that could easily be filed on the record shelf alongside lyric-forward indie or Southernrock, as well as on the bookshelf amongst the throngs of Southern literature hellbent on proving the elegance of grittiness. Big Ugly is also Fust––above all a group of close friends––uncovering a freedom within their sincere form of loose and fried guitar rock, emboldened to deliver both their most intimate songwriting and biggest sound to date.

While perhaps “few voices can write a song quite like Aaron Dowdy” (Paste), it is clear uponlistening that Big Ugly is an album of fully recognizable voices. One hears in the music the yearsof interplay between Avery Sullivan (Sluice) on Drums, Justin Morris (Sluice, Weirs) on guitar and vocals, Oliver Child-Lanning (Sluice, Weirs) on bass and vocals, Frank Meadows on piano, John Wallace (Colamo) on guitar and vocals, and Libby Rodenbough (Mipso) on fiddle and vocals. Big Ugly is also the second collaboration with the Asheville-based engineer Alex Farrar, recorded together throughout the summer of 2024 at Drop of Sun Studio. And with the help of many friends including Merce Lemon, Dave Hartley (The War on Drugs), and John James T ourville (The Deslondes), Big Ugly is exactly what one feels it to be: a huge group of people gathered together, stumbling upon songs amidst long days and even longer nights.

Event Venue

The Half Moon , 48 S. Front St, Hudson, United States

Tickets

USD 19.28

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