Ms.D Dusty

Ms.D, a.k.a Renee Desreaux, started her music career as lead singer of Delphine Geoff, ska/reggae, indie-rock band that took the Sydney scene by storm a couple of years back. Now she's striking out on her own as a solo artist, having released her first track, Puppy, earlier this year and now her latest single, Dusty, that's set for release in October. 

The sound she's dreamt into existence takes the best of her time fronting a band with a reputation for marching to the beat of a different drummer and, at the same time, introduces the listener to something entirely fresh and original. As the saying goes, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Dusty is a song dripping with intoxicating vocals, lush harmonies, lo-fi crackle, and grooving jazz vibes. It finds a way to at once grab you on a visceral level and caress you with its metaphors and multilayered, hypnotic ambience. 

The track was recorded at Kiln Studios in St Peters where Ms.D combined her esoteric ingenuity with the mixing wizardry of producer, Daniel "Big Brain" Natoli. And having gotten a sense of what they could do through working together on her previous single, Puppy, they knew they could take her fearless experimentation, smouldering vocals and uncanny knack for finding that impossible groove to a whole new level.

In terms of influences, Ms.D draws upon transcendent talents like Nai Palm, Jaala, Velvet Bloom and Amy Winehouse and listening to her you can see why. She's following in the songcraft of artists who have also gone against the grain, weaving together patterns fashioned from the mysterious textures and melodic fabric out of which all great music is made. 

"Feel like I've just entered a textiles factory because all around me it's pure silk."

Tommy Faith – Executive Producer at triple j Unearthed