The brother sister indie rock band, Durry, have released another new single ‘Idk I Just Work Here’ from their forthcoming album. The video premiered earlier today on YouTube with Austin and Taryn joining the live chat alongside fans.
“This is the minimum wage anthem,” explains Austin Durry on the new single. “It’s super fun, fast paced, and quirky. All based around the classic scapegoat phrase “I don’t know I just work here”. Recently we had some financial uncertainty and I had to grapple with the fact that I might need to get a shitty job again to keep things afloat. Thankfully that’s not the case, but that’s what I was thinking about when I wrote this song. Remembering all the mind-numbing hours doing something I couldn’t care less about.”
The single is the second to be released from ‘This Movie Sucks’, their new album out June 27th via Thirty Tigers. It follows the title track, which was released last month upon the announcement of the new album. ‘This Movie Sucks’ – an instantly infectious introduction to the new album – was quickly added to major playlists like The New Alt, and All New Rock on Spotify with the band also being featured on the cover of the New Noise playlist.
Composed of Austin and Taryn Durry, the band is known for their wry, tongue in cheek lyrics about the futility of adulthood and the world at large. Their song ‘Who’s Laughing Now’ took off on Tiktok, amassing six million streams with listeners resonating with coming of age frustrations. It helped songs from their debut album ‘Suburban Legend’ see mentions with publications like Rolling Stone and Ones To Watch and debut at number four on the Alternative New Artist Chart.
Durry also recently announced a headline tour that will kick off in the fall. The tour will span twenty-four cities and kick off in the band’s hometown of Minneapolis, MN on September 12th at First Ave. At the end of this month, they will be heading to overseas for special acoustic performances at Rough Trade in Berlin and The Lower Third in London. A full list of upcoming dates can be found below.
‘This Movie Sucks’, produced by Phil Odom (Code Orange, Turnover, Say Anything), has a bit of everything for everyone. The sound is wildly diverse, taking Durry’s established sound and stretching it further than ever before. With strong punk rock sensibilities in songs like ‘Bully’ and ‘Start a Band’ alongside the folksy sounds of ‘The Long Goodbye’ and ‘Slug Bug’, the album is a wild ride from start to finish – tailor made for those reliving the energetic angst of the rock scene in the early aughts. Lyrically, ‘This Movie Sucks’ touches on universal themes such as prolonged grief, the toxic nature of Internet culture and remembering loved ones.
“Honestly the process of making this record has been a dream come true for us,” says Austin Durry. “We’ve always recorded in basements, and home studios whenever we could find time and finances to make it happen. But for this record we were finally able to get into a big studio with a completed body of work and just bang out a whole album. It felt so good, and I think that really shines through these songs.”
Upcoming Tour Dates:
May 26th – Rough Trade (acoustic performance) – Berlin, Germany
May 27th – The Lower Third (acoustic performance) – London, UK
June 7th – Edgewater Hotel – Seattle, WA
September 12th – First Ave – Minneapolis, MN
October 7th – xBk – Des Moines, IA
October 9th – Gothic – Denver, CO
October 10th – Commonwealth Room – Salt Lake City, UT
October 11th – Neurolux – Boise, ID
October 14th – Fox Cabaret– Vancouver, British Columbia
October 15th – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR
October 17th – Independent – San Francisco, CA
October 18th – The Catalyst Atrium – Santa Cruz, CA
October 20th – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA
October 21st – Quartyard – San Diego, CA
October 22nd – Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ
October 24th – Antone’s – Austin, TX
October 25th – Bronze Peacock Room – Houston, TX
October 26th – Club Dada – Dallas, TX
October 28th – Warehouse on Broadway – Kansas City, MO
November 4th – High Noon Saloon – Madison, WI
November 6th – Metro – Chicago, IL
November 7th – Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI
November 8th – Lee’s Palace – Toronto, Ontario
November 10th – Paradise Rock Club – Boston, MA
November 11th – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY
November 13th – Wonder Bar – Asbury Park, NJ
November 14th – Brooklyn Bowl – Philadelphia, PA
November 15th – The Howard Theatre – Washington, DC
November 17th – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
November 18th – Basement East – Nashville, TN
November 19th – HiFi – Indianapolis, IN