Party Dozen have dropped a new track, ‘Special Unit” which is a chaotic collision of sweat, feedback, sarcasm and blunt-force rhythm that seems capable of rattling windows several suburbs away. Party Dozen have spent the better part of a decade refining that sound into something uniquely theirs, and the new single might be the purest distillation of it yet.
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The track arrives with the philosophy that less is more, provided the “more” means more volume, more panic and more pressure. Written, recorded, mixed, mastered and filmed entirely by the duo themselves, ‘Special Unit’ lands like a police siren trapped inside a warehouse rave.
The accompanying video expands the universe first established in the award-winning clip for ‘Coup De Gronk’, with Kirsty Tickle and Boulet once again roaming Sydney as agents of absolute chaos. This time they’re dressed as a deeply unconvincing “Special Unit”, lurching through the city with the energy of cops who received their training exclusively from late-night cable television and expired energy drinks.
The release arrives ahead of a huge few weeks for the band, including an appearance at Vivid Sydney 2026 inside the Sydney Opera House before heading overseas to support Amyl and the Sniffers on a full US run that includes the surreal leap from underground Sydney venues to Colorado’s legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Not bad for a duo built around saxophone, drums and pure nervous energy.
Over four albums, Party Dozen have steadily transformed from local noise underground lifers into one of Australia’s most unpredictable exports, sharing stages with everyone from Tropical Fuck Storm to King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizardwhile collaborating with artists as varied as Nick Cave and billy woods. The new single, alongside previous release ‘Mad Rooter’, points toward a fifth album due later this year and suggests the band are only becoming louder, stranger and more locked into their own universe.
