Wisconsin country rock heroes Dusk have answered my prayers and have returned with new music. Their sophomore album, Glass Pastures, is out August 20 via Don Giovanni, their first proper album in five years.

It seems like only folks in the know are aware of this band. I’m continuing to do my part to get more people “in the know”. I featured their self-titled debut as one of my favorites of 2018, and even further included it in my Top 200 Albums of the 2010s, smack dab between Kaytranada’s 99.9% and Earl Sweatshirt’s Some Rap Songs. That’s how much I love that dang record. And now, a few years and a few solo projects from the individual members later, they’re back and ready to kick ass with this new LP.

The band picks up where they left off on “Pissing In A Wishing Well”, with sun-baked, southern-fried guitars winding a melody that surges the track forward (not to mention rip some killer solos in the back half), chunky percussion, chiming bar piano and gang vocals on the chorus made for singing with the car windows open and the road’s wind howling back at you. It has a sense of heft I feel is missing from a lot of rock these days. This band knows how to funk it. The full LP is arriving just in time to harness the remaining heat energy from the summer – so don’t miss out on this perfect time and get Glass Pastures on your calendar.