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Dirt Buyer II

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1.	Dirt Buyer II Theme 03:16	buy track
2.	Heavy 01:11	buy track
3.	Sand 02:44	buy track
4.	Gathering Logs 02:56	buy track
5.	Fentanyl 02:17	buy track
6.	Tears My Heart In Two 01:58	buy track
7.	Shame 02:23	buy track
8.	Heartache 01:52	buy track
9.	Wicked Branches 02:54	buy track
10.	Heaven 02:55	buy track
11.	Sounds Heard Through the Glass 02:04	buy track
12.	On and On 04:21	buy track

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Joe Sutkowski (Dirt Buyer)’s new album is a documentation of making it to the other side. Sutkowski grew up in New Jersey, and although he lives in Brooklyn now, he remains “an emo kid at heart,” garnering inspiration from bands like My Chemical Romance and Muse, the latter of whose theatrical, dramatic performances inspired the band’s own vocal-forward, soaring takes. Initially working together as a duo while Sutkowski and Ruben Radlauer (Model/Actriz) were at school in Berklee, the band’s self-titled 2019 debut album was recorded on an IPhone in their practice room on just drums and guitar, and the quietly striking, nuanced stylings earned them accolades far beyond the “fake record label” the two made up to originally release their music.

The band’s new album, Dirt Buyer II, was recorded in February 2020, and represents a foray into heavier material that marks a deeper shift for the band. Now working as a trio, Sutkowski is flanked by Tristan Allen on bass and Mike Costa on drums, a fellow Berklee grad who cut his teeth playing in bands across Boston including past collaborations with Sutkowski. Half-recorded while the band was on tour with Surf Curse, the record finds Sutkowski reaching out for places, people and beliefs to ground him.
Throughout the album he attempts to wrap his head around the idea of fate and how you can brush up against other people and then leave them behind. The songs themselves play with this concept of light and dark intertwined. Oscillating between urgency and cathartic release and more stripped-back elegies, Sutkowski faces the reality that while the people he’d rather forget can still live on through music, he is able to move on at the same time.

Half-recorded in his mother and uncle’s upstate house where he turned the living room into a studio, he contemplates the beauty and disaster around him—all refracted through visceral visual imagery of how the physical earth meets the unknown to converge in something greater than ourselves. “This is all a living chronicle of all I want to do, which is feel good and be happy,” he admits. “I’m a completely different person now - a better version of myself.” Processing the past, Sutkowksi has emerged with newfound belief, fully intact and with a new path forward to the future.

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released October 20, 2023

Written by Joe Taylor Sutkowski
Bass & Additional Vox by Emma Stacher
Produced by Joe Taylor Sutkowski, Ruben Radlauer, Hayden Ticehurst
Recorded by Ruben Radlauer, Hayden Ticehurst
Mixed by Ruben Radlauer, Hayden Ticehurst
Mastered by Heba Kadry

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Dirt Buyer New York, New York

JOE TAYLOR SUTKOWSKI

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Jun 11

Songbyrd

Washington, DC
Jun 14

Baby's All Right - Brooklyn

Brooklyn, NY
Jun 18

Beat Kitchen

Chicago, IL
Jun 19

Turf Club

St. Paul, MN
Jun 21

Globe Hall

Denver, CO

discography

Dirt Buyer II

Oct 2023
On & On

Mar 2023
Josephine (Cole Haden Remix)

Dec 2019
IKIF

Sep 2019
Sylvia

May 2019
Dirt Buyer

Jan 2019
Josephine

Feb 2012

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