Dirt Buyer is the project of Joe Sutkowski, is announcing their new album Dirt Buyer III will drop on February 6 via Bayonet Records (Beach Fossils, Being Dead, Mei Semones). The news follows last month’s standalone single “Betchu Won’t.” Ahead of the new album’s release, Dirt Buyer is sharing the lead single “Get To Choose,” alongside a video shot at the band’s recent DirfFest show at Substance Skate Park in Brooklyn.

The Brooklyn-based musician who has released two albums under the name, palyed as a live member of This Is Lorelei and playing shows with Horse Jumper of Love, Greg Freeman, and fantasy of a broken heart.

Joe Sutkowski on “Get To Choose:”

“This song is about feeling very alone in a situation I didn’t want to be in, but not knowing how to communicate that. It’s like being really, really tiny and screaming, but you’re too small and nobody can hear you.”

Dirt Buyer songs can often reflect on the past and present simultaneously. In most cases, Dirt Buyer III’s material is raw, in-the-moment transmissions from a fraught passage. Nearing the end of his twenties, Sutkowski found himself battling alcoholism while grappling with relationship strife and family trauma. He holed up in his bedroom, writing song after song at his desk. The songs became a way of communicating when he struggled to find the words in conversation.

“There was all this shit happening at the same time,” Sutkowski recalls. “I didn’t have the language to express things I needed to in order to protect myself dealing with this new open relationship dynamic at the peak of my alcoholism.”

Dirt Buyer
Dirt Buyer III
Tracklist
Bayonet Records

Baseball
For Me
Halfway
Bullshit Fuck
Betchu Won’t
Get to Choose
Wait on the World
Multizeal
Me Before You
Old as Sin
When You Were a Kid

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