With numerous EPs and singles to their identify, Sydney’s personal The Buoys at the moment announce their debut album, Lustre, coming July 12. In celebration of the album announcement they’ve shared their new single and video for ‘Check Mate’.
Drenched with lyrical vulnerability in opposition to their signature indie rock sound and a belt out loud refrain, ‘Check Mate’ sees The Buoys at their best possible. Co-written with Alex Lahey, the newest single packs a punch, as heard within the band’s debut triple j Like A Version this morning. Directed by Tas Wilson, the accompanying video each visually and emotionally emulates the power of a street journey with mates, mirroring the craving for connection that pours out of the monitor from begin to end.
The Buoys on the one: “’Check Mate’ was impressed by my mates checking up on me after I was actually burnt out (therefore the title ‘Check Mate’ relatively than Checkmate). I feel lots of people can relate to the pressures of at all times being contactable by cellphone, little purple notifications that was a success of dopamine are actually a supply of strain to at all times be on and obtainable. I’ve some amazingly supportive mates, and this music is about feeling responsible for not being there for my mates in the identical ways in which they’re there for me as a result of I used to be coping with severe burn out.
I like the thought of ‘home’ being the place your family and friends are and never essentially a spot. This music is certainly about craving to be within the presence of your family members in onerous instances.”
Alongside the discharge of ‘Check Mate’, The Buoys have delighted followers with the information of their debut album Lustre, coming July 12. Recorded with Chris Collins in NSW’s Northern Rivers area, Lustre is a celebration of The Buoys as one of many nation’s hardest working dwell acts, with your complete album recorded dwell collectively. Featuring earlier singles ‘Subject A’, ‘Guard My Heart’ and ‘Settle Petal’, the file thoughtfully unpacks a spectrum of feelings, life experiences and influences throughout a wealthy sonic panorama that spans indie, rock, punk, various and extra.
The Buoys say of their debut album: “Lustre is the way in which light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral. Derived from the Latin word lux (meaning “light”), Lustre implies the radiance or brilliance of a supplies coating. Think of sunshine, on this sense, as expertise – each good and unhealthy – and your self because the mineral, with an enamel formed for essentially the most half by your life experiences, but in addition your option to determine how a lot gentle you let in and put out into the world. Your ‘Lustre’ informs your inside workings… it determines the way you refract or interpret new experiences, and influences the methods by which you join with others and their Lustre. Every music on this album is open to interpretation, in order that the darkness and light-weight could be absorbed and refracted topic to your Lustre. So whether or not you’re a shiny rock or a chunk of charcoal, we hope you’re keen on this album as a lot as we do.”
‘Check Mate’ marks the third from The Buoys in 2024, following on from ‘Subject A’ and ‘Guard My Heart’. Prior to this, the band launched singles, ‘I Want You’ and ‘Settle Petal’, in addition to a collaboration with Norway’s Sløtface in ‘Fight Back Time’. One of the nation’s most onerous-working touring acts, The Buoys squeezed in in depth touring between releases, together with exhibits with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, DMAs, IDLES and Royal Blood. Most lately, The Buoys performed Party In The Paddock, the Melbourne leg of Laneway Festival and Great Southern Nights.
The Buoys blasted out of the native punk rock scene, and in just some quick years, launched three EPs collectively, enjoying bought-out exhibits throughout the nation which have earned them a faithful following and engrained this Sydney based mostly rock band into Australian music tradition. From coming in at #85 on triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2021 with ‘Lie To Me Again’, to touring and supporting the likes of The Dandy Warhols, Soccer Mommy, Wet Leg and Ball Park Music, The Buoys themselves are dedicated to enjoying excessive-octane exhibits, and because of this have cemented their place as an unmissable dwell present expertise.
Over the previous 12 months alone, the band have exhibits with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, DMAs, IDLES and Royal Blood. Most lately, The Buoys performed Party In The Paddock, the Melbourne leg of Laneway Festival and Great Southern Nights. Currently supporting Vacations on their UK tour dates, The Buoys will make their debut at The Great Escape in Brighton on May sixteenth and seventeenth, earlier than heading residence to assist Luke Hemmings in Sydney this June.
Now able to share their greatest and boldest physique of labor thus far, prepared your self for Lustre and tune into ‘Check Mate’ at the moment.