Komunitat release debut album ‘Dust Curse’ with vinyl edition via Kontra Kultura
New Zealand collective Komunitat release debut album “Dust Curse”; the digital is out now, with a vinyl edition via Portugal’s Kontra Kultura due in July 2026.
New Zealand collective Komunitat released their debut album “Dust Curse” digitally on 2 June 2026, with a vinyl edition due from the Portuguese label Kontra Kultura in the second week of July 2026. Komunitat “Dust Curse” runs to 15 tracks and is available to stream and download through the group’s Bandcamp page.
The collective describes its music as working across post-industrial, EBM, coldwave, post-punk, spoken word and what it terms “obscurepop”. On Bandcamp the album is tagged across the same fields, and the group lists an influence pool that includes Virgin Prunes, Fad Gadget, Nitzer Ebb, Laibach, Coil, Depeche Mode, Silver Apples, Bauhaus, Cold Cave, Minimal Compact, Joy Division, Ike Yard, Black Asteroid and Scott Walker.
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Komunitat ‘Dust Curse’: formats and themes
“Dust Curse” is presented as a concept record addressing memory, decay, conflict, identity and transformation, with stated reference points in the writing of Lautréamont and Baudelaire and the work of photographer Peter Beard. The vinyl edition spans three sides. The digital album appeared on 2 June 2026; the Kontra Kultura vinyl pressing is scheduled for the second week of July 2026. A full physical tracklist breakdown across the three sides has not been confirmed.
Komunitat – ‘Dust Curse’ tracklist
- “Dust”
- “Boys”
- “Stand”
- “Sex”
- “Claim”
- “Klang”
- “War”
- “Faces”
- “Body”
- “Gaza”
- “Mind”
- “Guilt”
- “Beauty”
- “Abyss”
- “Curse”
The album can be heard on the official “Dust Curse” Bandcamp page.
About Komunitat
Komunitat is a collective of musicians and artists formed in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2024. The group operates with a deliberately limited public profile and describes itself as a community project. Before “Dust Curse”, it issued four EPs across two series: “Let The Boys Come Home” (EP1 and EP2) and “Elon Is A Clown” (EP3 and EP4).
“Dust Curse” is the group’s first full-length album. The digital edition was released on 2 June 2026, and the vinyl edition on Kontra Kultura is set to follow in July 2026, marking Komunitat’s first physical release on the Portuguese label.
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