Some bands spend years chasing the moment they sound fully themselves. DMA’S appear ready to bottle it. The Sydney trio have announced a new East Coast headline tour alongside details of their forthcoming fifth studio album, a self-titled record arriving August 7 via Wonderlick Entertainment / Sony Music Australia / RCA UK. Preorder/presave HERE.
The run begins November 27 at Fortitude Music Hall before moving to Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens on November 28 as part of the Live at the Gardens series, then closing with a hometown statement at Sydney Opera House Forecourt on December 3. For a band who once built their name in sticky-floored rooms, it feels like another giant stride into open air territory.
There is more nostalgia in the tank too. Following overwhelming demand for their sold-out anniversary show in March, DMA’S will also revisit debut album Hills End with a special 10-year celebration set.
Backseat Mafia recently caught the band tearing through the Metro Theatre, where their mix of terrace-sized choruses and lived-in swagger again underlined why they remain one of Australia’s most reliable live propositions. Few local bands can shift so naturally between intimacy and scale.
Written between their Glebe studio in Sydney and sessions in Los Angeles, the new self-titled album is billed as a defining chapter, with the band co-producing much of the record alongside Grammy-nominated producer Lach Bostock, plus contributions from Jimi Somewhere and Styalz Fuego.
To mark the announcement, DMA’S have shared new single Heatin Park, a bruised, stadium-sized cut driven by an MBV-style guitar line and ragged vocals. It arrives as a sharp counterpoint to earlier single My Baby’s Place, which climbed to the top of triple j rotation earlier this year.
That contrast suggests a band still unwilling to calcify. Across albums like For Now, THE GLOW and How Many Dreams?, DMA’S have refined a formula of Britpop-scale melody, Australian grit and emotional openness. This next chapter sounds intent on stretching the frame.
With over 500 million catalogue streams, an ARIA win for Best Group and a now-canonical Like A Version cover of Believe, DMA’S no longer need to prove relevance. But they still seem hungry enough to keep doing it anyway.
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