"If waking up on Friday, January 2-the first music release day of 2026-to a new album from one of Portland's best bands isn't a potent foreshadowing of another incredible music year for this city, I don't know what is. The band in question? Dustbunny. A Portland-based quintet of punks standing firmly at many of the intersections making Rip City just that, a ripper city to live and create in."
"The album in question? Offerings for Weary Dogs. A 10-track lesson in beautifully vulnerable self-awareness not often heard on a sophomore LP. Not a concept album pre se, Offerings for Weary Dogs builds on the motifs appearing on the band's 2024 debut Machinery -interpersonal connection between the album's narrator(s) and their lovers, exes, friends, and, most importantly, theirselves. If these songs are sonic offerings for weary dogs... woof woof."
Dustbunny is a Portland-based queer, femme, and multiracial punk quintet deeply embedded in the city's music community. Offerings for Weary Dogs is a 10-track sophomore album that advances motifs from the band's 2024 debut Machinery, focusing on interpersonal connection among lovers, exes, friends, and the self. Chloe Flores writes and sings with raw vulnerability, opening Offerings with the whispered line "Only in my dreams do I think of killing you," juxtaposing heavenly acoustic chords with aching lyricism. The band blends dream pop and shoegaze influences while deliberately dissolving binaries such as male-female and straight-queer. The album release show is set for January 3 at Mississippi Studios.
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