Daily Toll – Listen to a new track from Sydney-based three-piece – Debut album, A Profound Non-Event
DAILY TOLL
SYDNEY-BASED THREE-PIECE SHARE NEW TRACK, ‘FLEETING’
LATEST FROM FORTHCOMING DEBUT ALBUM, A PROFOUND NON-EVENT
OUT 20 JUNE 2025 VIA TOUGH LOVE RECORDS
UK LIVE DATES
3 July – Preston, The Continental
4 July – Manchester Pop Fest w/ The Cannanes
13 July – Glasgow, The Old Hairdressers
21 July – London, Avalon Cafe, w/ The Spatulas and Guy Blackman
Sydney-based three-piece Daily Toll have shared a new track, ‘Fleeting’, ahead of the release of their debut album, A Profound Non-Event and a series of UK dates in July. The album, set for release on 20 June 2025 via Tough Love Records on vinyl, CD and digitally, comprises 11 songs traversing three years of forged friendships, collaborative experimentation and a shared love of growing through words and song.
Listen to ‘Fleeting’ HERE
The band explain, “‘Fleeting’ trails the witnessing of looped thoughts on a particularly low day, sat by the water on a sunny afternoon and accosted by sounds of property development and ad-ladened trash commercial radio; feeling angry at being sold our own demise and the fear of humanity never learning from our transgressions against earth and each other.”
Those attuned to the ever-vibrant Australian underground may already be well familiar with Daily Toll, their consistent live presence since their inception in 2021 embroidered by a handful of (mostly) home-recorded, (mostly) digital self-releases that have steadily accumulated an appreciative following. Initially the project of self-taught musician, poet & artist Kata Szász-Komlós (they/them) and Jasper Craig-Adams (he/him), and expended to a three piece with the more recent addition of friend Tom Stephens (he/him), Daily Toll represents the union of three unique creative dispositions, of relationships blooming through the push and pull of creative practice. Mapping the band’s existence through their recorded output is to bear witness to the flux of three people learning to respond to one another and gently ossify into a collective vision that at once calls to mind folk song intimacy, post-punk dynamics and the artful poeticism of an adjacent Flying Nun legacy.
If those earlier recordings reflect a band imagining themselves into being in real time, A Profound Non-Event observes a clear shift in both conviction and approach. Recorded in just three days with Alex Bennett at the purely analogue Sound Recordings studio in Castlemaine and holing up at night in the century old cottage situated beside the studio, sheltering from the late-June wind and rain within walls littered with instruments and microphones, lighting fires to stay warm. Kata describes the experience as defined by “candle light and creative camaraderie”, an idyllic account of a collection of songs that glide with an undeniably warm, easy charm, evidenced in particular in the record’s second half as the tone turns increasingly introspective, the very sound of a cold evening’s drift into night. When contrasted with the moody swirl and sing-song bounce of the opening trio of tracks, there’s clear evidence of a band not simply in the process of becoming, but committed to finding their truth in that process.
Still, if Daily Toll display a reluctance to be wholly defined, then album centrepiece ‘Killincs‘(positioned in the middle for a reason) might just be their Rosetta Stone. A poetic rumination on unsettled feelings of isolation and longing, the innate power of attention and the realisation that some things remain best unresolved – “I have the keys still, but I’ve buried the path”.
A Profound Non-Event is released on 20 June via Tough Love
Pre-order the album HERE
Listen to / embed ‘Fleeting’ HERE
Artwork and press photographs HERE
A Profound Non-Event tracklisting
Another World
Fleeting
I’m Bored
I’m Bored
Easy Man
My Sister’s Loom
Mountain Song
Belljar Convenience
Fated To Pretend
Waiting Game
A Light
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