Fust + Brown Horse

Big Ugly is the third album by Fust on their longtime label home of Dear Life Records, who gained notoriety with MJ Lendermans’ Boat Songs, and have become a haven for contemporary songwriters. Their studio debut, 2023’s Genevieve, was recorded with producer Alex Farrar (Manning Fireworks, Rat Saw God, Tomorrow’s Fire) in Asheville, North Carolina, and received rave reviews from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paste and more. Recorded with Farrar over ten days in June of 2024, Big Ugly is the explosive result of Fust uncovering a freedom within their sincere form of loose and fried guitar rock, emboldened to deliver both their most intimate songwriting and biggest sound to date. The members –– Aaron Dowdy, drummer Avery Sullivan, pianist Frank Meadows, guitarist John Wallace, multi-instrumentalist Justin Morris, fiddlist Libby Rodenbough, and bassist Oliver Child-Lanning––weave their voices alongside guests like Merce Lemon, Dave Hartley (The War on Drugs), and John James Tourville (The Deslondes) across music that sounds like a conversation between old friends, and is exactly that.