
daste. are a trio from the Gold Coast Australia who make catchy indie-pop music with smooth R&B/soul influences, crafting a sound that can be likened to a mix between LEISURE, Tora, Two Another and Jungle.
In 2019 daste. gave us their debut ep “Palette” (via Mammal Sounds Records) which featured their singles “Thinkin’ of”, “Myself” and “SOBER” and has since collected over 16 million streams on Spotify alone.
Shortly after that ep was released, daste. started hitting the live music scene, they played a few sold-out shows in Gold Coast and Brisbane, which then led to them being invited to support the likes of Lastlings, First Beige, Boo Seeka, Buttered, Felivand, Yb., Mickey Kojack and Midnight Pool Party. They were also one of 16 artists selected by Triple J’s Dave Ruby Howe to perform at Sydney’s Electronic Music Conference (EMC) in December 2019, and have since played a few other festivals/events such as Mountain Goat Crawl (2020), Burleigh Ball (2023) and Springtime (2023).
In early 2020, daste. gave us their second ep “Same As It Ever Was” which was met with much praise and appreciation from music curators, industry peers and fans across the globe, and has accumulated over 42 million streams on Spotify alone.
While 2020’s COVID restrictions made it hard for Callum, Tyler & Braxton to meet up for writing sessions, they didn’t let that stop them making music. They put a strategy in place to start writing & working on new ideas individually, and then they got together for a few hours every week, over video calls, to flesh-out those ideas as a collective.
As those ideas started coming together the guys realised, they had a substantial collection of great new songs in the works and decided it made sense for them to focus on a full-length album.