Dune Rats - Hurry Up And Wait

Hurry Up And Wait is the third studio album by Australian rock band Dune Rats, released in January 2020 via BMG and Ratbag Records.

Dune Rats are from Brisbane, Queensland, forming in 2010 initially as a duo and now a three piece band comprising Danny Bues (lead vocals, guitars), BC Michaels (drums) and Brett Jansch (bass). Their debut album Dune Rats was released in 2014, followed by The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit in 2017.

A nod to the stop-start nature of life on the road, the title of the group’s third album Hurry Up And Wait, gives a hint of the wild ride Dune Rats have experienced following the success of their breakthrough 2017 record The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit, which landed four singles in triple J’s Hottest 100 between 2016 and 2017, debuted at #1 on the ARIA charts, and was nominated for ‘Best Rock Album’ at the ARIAs.

While Hurry Up And Wait marks a new chapter for the band as their cleanest and most refined release to date, the boys prove just as tongue-in-cheek and down-to-earth as ever.

The key to unlocking Dune Rats’ third album was bringing everything back to where it all began, returning home after briefly testing the waters in America, swapping Calabasas for the Central Coast and super producers for old mates.

Lead singer Danny Beus said "We didn't set out to make a big album, or a polished album, or an album about partying because the last one did alright, or an album not about partying because we want to get away from that. It's just writing about different stuff in our lives. It was always just going to be Dunies...”

This album is on an animated phonotronic “blue cheese” picture disc vinyl housed in a single pocket sleeve with a printed inner sleeve, pressed in Australia via Ratbag Records and BMG.