Acclaimed Canadian Artist Dusted Releases New Single Little More Time Today

Toronto, ON – Today, acclaimed Canadian songwriter Dusted aka Brian Borcherdt released a brand-new single ‘’Little More Time’’ via AWAL and all streaming services. Also announced today is the forthcoming album ‘’III” slated for release this Summer and is available for pre-order here as of today. Borcherdt is the founding member of Holy Fuck as well as LIDS which includes members of Metz and Constantines, and has a single due out this year on Sub Pop. 

The new album is the follow up to the acclaimed 2018 release BlackOut Summer and will provide a welcome musical shot in the arm for fans who have anxiously waited three years for new music from Dusted.

The release of ‘’Little More Time’’ is accompanied by a video in which the story is of an unlikely bond between Borcherdt and his companion, a small dinosaur. The song itself is a tribute. The lyrics are a eulogy. The video follows the duo on their last days together as they get drunk and watch an asteroid approaching.

Said Borcherdt, "one morning on tour I woke up and turned to my bandmate and said 'I feel like one of those dinosaurs that'd be on a t-shirt, wearing sunglasses and drinking a beer. The caption would read Party-Saurus-Rex'. We all have to say goodbye to our little Partysaurus at some point."

The location of the shoot was in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. Shoot times had to be chosen carefully as the location has the world's highest and most extreme tides. The caves and waterfalls could only be accessed at certain times of the day, before they'd be filled again with sea water. The video was written and directed by Borcherdt, cinematography and editing was done by Anna Borcherdt, with animation, dino directing, colouring and final editing by Luca Tarantini.

‘The album's process began with Borcherdt finding a long forgotten favourite song, coming back to him in a dream. ‘’That same morning, I found a demo of it, along with countless others, on an old laptop,’’ said Borcherdt. ‘’It was a joyful moment, hearing long lost songs as if I was never part of them. I was a third-party listener thus allowing them to be innocent and unjudged. I added a handful of the favourites to a current set list, which became the inspiration to go into the studio, to lay everything down, live off the floor, simply to preserve them, to keep them from being forgotten again.'

Dusted’s 2012 album ‘’Total Dust’’ was selected for the Polaris Prize Long List in 2013. The support from filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee earned Dusted two songs in his most recent film Demolition and a cameo role in Wild. With Holy Fuck, Borcherdt has been making music for 15 years and has released 5 albums. Holy Fuck has seen their music played on major TV shows like Breaking Bad and Mr Robot as well as ranking over 200K monthly listeners on Spotify and accumulating over 5 million career streams to date. Borcherdt has been releasing solo music since 2002. Previously to Holy Fuck, he was part of By Divine Right whose past band members count Feist and Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning. 

The link to press photos can be found here.

III – Track Listing 

1. Not Offering
2. Baseball
3. Cedar Tree
4. They Don’t Know You
5. Little More Time
6. Mountain Top
7. Bide My Time
8. Wash My Hands Away
9. Erik
10. Recovery Cone
11. Clouds
12. Palmer

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‘’Borcherdt has found a worthy foil who can help him steer clear of sad-bastard solipsism, introducing luminous textures that lend these recordings a greater sense of space and levity.’’ - Stuart Berman, Pitchfork

‘’It's the kind of music few would expect from one-half of a duo who once stirred the ire of the Conservative government. But that's part of Dusted's power: emotional nuance where it's least expected.’’ - Ian Gormely, Exclaim!

‘’Guitars deform through bargain-bin amps, toy keyboards add childlike sweetness, and Borcherdt’s blown-out falsetto seamlessly blends with everything around it. The result is murky, hazy, psychedelic and endlessly replayable.’’ - Richard Trapunkski, NOW Toronto