Australian post-punksters Shady Nasty, have announced their debut album TREK set for release on 21st February 2025. Marking the occasion is the group’s latest single ‘CAREDBRAH’. Sparking local notoriety in their hometown of Sydney since 2017, TREK is a statement of intent fully realised – ‘We want to win.‘ Their debut promises a lean 8 track extension of their critically acclaimed world-building from their EPs Bad Posture and CLUBSMOKE.
Produced by Kim Moyes of The Presets, TREK’s journey refracts against universal stories of friendship, living to work and working to live, social expectations in growing older, nostalgia for the innocence of suburbia and imposter syndrome. Where earlier releases presented augmented versions of the Shady Nasty they were dreaming to be, TREK sees the cult band let loose the shackles of a tough exterior to bleed authenticity.
Following earlier releases ‘G-SHOCK‘ and ‘HARDSTYLE’ new single ‘CAREDBRAH’ is considered an evolution for the group, bound by melodic chords and an overt sense of care as direct as ever – “Always knew you had the guts brah.” True friends don’t let their divergent worlds, day job or or otherwise, break them apart. An emotionally resonant ode to mateship. The band share the following on the new single:
“CAREDBRAH reflects on a friendship between two kids headed down opposing paths. A decade later, one in an Armani suit at work drinks and the other smashing a servo pie for lunch, they still turn to each other for an honesty that newer friends fail to deliver.”
Arriving with visuals directed by Luca Watson (drummer) and Harry Welsh, they explain:
“‘CAREDBRAH’s’ music video sets adrift on hypnotic and subconscious vignettes of Shady Nasty’s Sydney; whether it be the ritual beauty of heavy exercise or of washing a beloved car in suburbia, the clip seeks solitude, real or imagined, that might reset and restore our mind.”
Shady Nasty are a band built on tough tenderness, making prose from the banality of routine and existential aphorisms from slang; the post-punk anthropologists translate life stages through a digitised output with commentary on masculinity, the growing blur of our on and offline footprint, and the branded totems of culture. “That’s the world we live in, isn’t it? Bit of Balenciaga, bit of Salomon.”
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