INTERVIEW: Shady Nasty's Luca Watson on TREK, World-Building, and Collaborating With Kettama
"It's the most honest thing I think we've ever done"
There’s nothing rushed about TREK. The long-awaited debut album from Sydney trio Shady Nasty — Kevin Stathis, Haydn Green and Luca Watson — arrives after years of quiet anticipation and careful world-building. Since emerging in 2017, the band have developed a sound that resists orthodoxy, folding their classical training into a raw, off-kilter take on punk. On TREK, that sound sharpens.
Produced by Kim Moyes of The Presets, the record is lean, deliberate and deeply personal — less about arrival than endurance. It documents the tension between ambition and survival, comfort and chaos, identity and expectation. And in doing so, TREK offers the clearest view into the cathartic, singular world Shady Nasty have spent years crafting.
Ahead of their Australian tour, I caught up with Luca Watson to discuss the making of TREK, it’s thematic depth, and what fans can expect when Shady Nasty hit the road.
Listen to the full interview below.