Custard Returns with New Album & 2024 Australian Tour
The indie veterans have also shared funky new single, ‘Molecules Colliding’.
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Aussie indie favs Custard are returning in 2024 with their ninth studio album, Suburban Curtains. Following on from 2020s successful Respect All Lifeforms, the new record arrives Friday, October 11 via ABC Music (you can pre-order/pre-save the album here).
Along with announcing their new LP, Custard have shared the album’s first single, ‘Molecules Colliding’ (listen below). Catchy and fun with singalong “oohs” and a wicked guitar riff, the tune is about that gooey feeling you get inside when you fall head over heels for someone.
“This is a love song. A long human relationship in three inscrutable verses and one equivocating bridge,” the band said in a statement. “Luckily the chorus is empowering in its embrace of contrasts of scale, and recognition of the echoes and repetition within physics and humanity. The finale is open ended, lyrically anticipatory and musically truncated. A study in contradiction and reflection.”
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Not only are Custard blessing us with new tunes, but the band are hitting the road throughout November and December. They’ve organised 14 dates across the country that includes stops in capital cities like Sydney, Perth and Melbourne and regional centres such as Gippsland, Ulladulla and Townsville. In good news for Adelaide fans, Custard are performing at The Gov on Saturday, November 16, with tickets for all shows on sale now.
Joining Custard on select tour dates are Victorian rockers The Fauves and party band The Streets of Leisure, with more supports to be announced.
Custard’s career stretches almost 35 years, with the band developing a cult following in the 90s with hit singles ‘Apartment’ and ‘Girls Like That (Don’t Go For Guys Like Us)’ before suddenly calling it quits in 1999.
They went on to reunite several times before officially reforming in 2009. Since then they’ve released four more albums – Come Back All is Forgiven (2015), The Common Touch (2017), The Band Live In The Basement (2018) and Respect All Lifeforms (2020) – and continued to perform live for their adoring fans.
Catch Custard at The Gov on Saturday, November 16. Grab tickets via Oztix and pre-order/pre-save a copy of Suburban Curtains here.
Custard Australian Tour 2024
Saturday, November 9 – Crowbar, Sydney
Friday, November 15 – Republic Café, Hobart
Saturday, November 16 – The Gov, Adelaide
Friday, November 22 – The Prince, Melbourne
Saturday, November 23 – Live At The Bundy, Gippsland
Sunday, November 24 – Theatre Royal, Castlemaine
Friday, November 29 – The Baso, Canberra
Saturday, November 30 – The Marlin, Ulladulla
Friday, December 6 – Milk Bar, Perth
Saturday, November 7 – Mojos, Fremantle
Friday, December 13 – Dalrymple, Townsville
Saturday, December 14 – Edge Hill, Cairns
Friday, December 20 – Miami Marketta, Gold Coast
Saturday, December 21 – The Princess, Brisbane
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