Fust the Durham, North Carolina-based band announce their new album, Big Ugly, out March 7th via Dear Life Records. Big Ugly arrives after the release of 2024s Songs of the Railone of the best alt-country compilationsin a long, long time (Paste) and 2023s standout Genevieve, which unassumingly introduced new listeners to Fusts unmistakable blend of small-town poetry (Mojo) with a familiar yet probing country-tinged folk-rock (KEXP) that made 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 has before. Songwriter Aaron Dowdy pushes his obsessions with country-storytelling to more mystifying places, telling stories of Southern life teeming with utopian possibility that arises uniquely from the contradictions for which the south is infamously known. In this way, it is a record that could easily be filed on the record shelf alongside lyric-forward indie or Southern rock, as well as on the bookshelf amongst the throngs of Southern literature hellbent on proving the elegance of grittiness. Big Ugly is also Fustabove all a group of close friendsuncovering 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 upon listening that Big Ugly is an album of fully recognizable voices. One hears in the music the years of 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 Tourville (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.
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