After more than a decade in the making, The Dying Seconds return with “Precious Rusted Things”, out now, the first single from forthcoming album Feast, due later this year. Listen Here
Built around a hypnotic, Saharan-inspired syncopated guitar figure wrapped in granular synth textures and glitchy percussion, “Precious Rusted Things” is both expansive and deeply intimate, a warm, rattling anthem for imperfection, memory, and enduring love. Drawing influence from the rhythmic eccentricity of Talking Heads and the melodic warmth of Fleetwood Mac, filtered through the communal experimentalism of Animal Collective and Broken Social Scene, the song celebrates the worn, weathered things we carry with us long after their initial shine fades.
That spirit of long-distance creation defines Feast, an album whose origins stretch back to 2012, when The Dying Seconds relocated to London after receiving praise for earlier work from figures including Aaron Dessner, who described the band as “stunningly beautiful and ambitious”, and broadcaster Bob Harris, who called their music “something really special”.
The band had planned to record a follow-up quickly, spending endless evenings in cramped South London rehearsal rooms writing together with restless momentum. But during recording sessions, chronic illness left Cantan unable to continue, bringing the project, and the band’s live ambitions, to an abrupt halt.
Unable to travel or perform, and separated by geography, The Dying Seconds refused to abandon the songs. Instead, over the following years, Cantan slowly rebuilt Feast from rural Ireland, combining material begun in London with performances contributed remotely by musicians across five continents. Progress was painstaking, often interrupted by illness, but the slower pace allowed the album to become more expansive, patient and deliberate in its vision.
The resulting record is an ambitious collection of 11 songs shaped by perseverance as much as inspiration, cinematic yet intimate, meticulous yet emotionally raw. Unable to exist as a touring band, The Dying Seconds now operate with a singular focus on music itself: making songs that reflect the beauty, friction, disappointment and endurance of ordinary life.
If “Precious Rusted Things” is any indication, Feast is not an album about preserving dreams unchanged, but about accepting what survives them, embracing imperfection as life reshapes ambition into something stranger, harder won, and perhaps more meaningful.
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