Dune Rats - Real Rare Whale

Real Rare Whale is the fourth studio album by Australian rock band Dune Rats, released in July 2022 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 and Hurry Up And Wait in 2020.

It’s done. It’s in the can. Australia’s favourite ratbags, Dune Rats have confirmed album #4 will be titled ‘Real Rare Whale’.

The 10 track album is the Dunies at their punkiest, punniest, funniest best. Songs about changing the world (‘Space Cadet’), couch surfing (‘Dumb TV’), teenage crushes (‘Pamela Aniston’) and Australia’s favourite pastime (‘Drink All Day’) all make for a classic Dune Rats album.

‘Real Rare Whale’ is Dune Rats 4th long player and follows on from their consecutive #1 ARIA albums, 2020’s ‘Hurry Up And Wait’ and 2017’s ‘The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit’.

Recorded with acclaimed producer Scott Horscroft, the band relocated to Eden on the south coast of New South Wales for three months at the height of the pandemic and set out to write an album that was opposite to the negativity going on in the world. The result is an album full of fun and melodic rock n’ roll.

This album is on neon green coloured vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve, pressed in Canada via BMG.