Husky Stardust Blues

The long awaited fourth studio album from globally loved Melbourne Indie-folk band Husky is released.

 

Stardust Blues is about the light that comes at the end of a long night. Each song is a chapter, and in these chapters, love is lost and found, punches are thrown, dreams are destroyed, and new ones emerge in their place. Inspired by James Joyce's classic novel Ulysses, the album follows a character and his friends over 24 hours as they traverse the city, which becomes a kind of map of the heart.

 

Husky Gawenda wrote the songs of 'Stardust Blues' with fellow band members Gideon Preiss (keys) and Jules Pascoe (bass/guitar) and all three co-produced the songs with producer/engineer Matt Redlich at the helm. The album was recorded to 24-track tape, with Holly Thomas on drums, at Woodstock Studios in Melbourne.

 

Of the release Husky says, "Our new album - Stardust Blues - was written and partially recorded at the Westbury Hotel, an old 1920s mansion that served as a kind of artist commune and a home to us and other artists from 2014 - 2019.
 
While we were recording, our home - The Westbury Hotel - where we and our friends and fellow artists lived and slept and woke and wrote and recorded and dreamed, was demolished, to make way for a new block of apartments. During this time, we who lived at the Hotel and our friends were going through the usual day to day cycles of destruction and creation that make up our lives.

We finished Stardust Blues just as the time came to leave the Hotel but as we left, we converted the place into one big ephemeral work of art - we painted on the walls, we covered walls in scribbled out dreams, we had parties with art installations and music and while all this was happening we recorded live versions of some of the songs from the new record. Even as the place was being demolished, we were recording and filming.
 

Until there was nothing left so we took our Tascam 388 tape machine to our friends house in the country and finished the recordings there in her garden."
 
Husky deserve widespread acclaim for their new record, it will delight fans and industry alike. The album will be supported by a national tour with details to be unveiled in the coming weeks.