Dick Move Release New Album ‘Dream, Believe, Achieve’
High-octane Aotearoa punk force Dick Move are renowned for their explosive live shows and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it anthems, blending party-punk chaos with razor-sharp political bite.
Their third studio album, Dream, Believe, Achieve, out today on Flying Nun Records / 1:12 Records, is classic Dick Move, 13 tracks of unrelenting energy delivered in just 25 minutes. The album features previously released singles including the fierce punk-rock battle cry Fuck It, which delivers on what Dick Move do best: unbridled rejection of misogyny, control, and the systems that enable them. Nurses, an empowering protest anthem, Scared Old Men – where through snarling vocals and post-punk grit Dick Move confront the ways patriarchal systems restrict expression, exploit lives, and sustain capitalism’s broken machinery and the short, punchy, hot take of Shut Your Mouth.
Other unreleased album tracks include an ode to public transport with Up The Bus, a love song and anti-gentrification anthem dedicated to their beloved Karangahape Road, and the reclamation of phrases Try Hard and Bludger, further cementing the band’s status as one of Aotearoa’s most vital punk voices.
The album title, Dream, Believe, Achieve, subverts the toxic positivity of self-help culture, transforming empty mantras of individual wealth and status into a collective call for action and a better world. Across the record, Dick Move delivers a raw, loud, and pointed critique of systems that commodify our lives, bodies, labour, and land, reclaiming agency, voice, and power. As a whole, the album is a a fierce, unapologetic anthem for resistance. The riotous fury of Lucy Suttor, Lucy Macrae, Hariet Ellis, Justin Rendell, and Luke Boyes feels urgent and essential on every single track.
The album was tracked and mixed by De Stevens at Roundhead Studios, produced by long-term friend and collaborator Peter Ruddell (Sulfate, Wax Chattels), and mastered by new friend Mikey Young.
Alongside the album release, the band have shared a new home-made video for their recent single Shut Your Mouth. Guitarist Ellis took the lead in creating a fun and cute video cobbled together from tour footage captured since Wet was released – mostly dancing.
“We are fun and cute,” agrees Suttor.
Their nationwide tour of Aotearoa New Zealand kicks off tonight – Friday 14 November – at their HQ of Double Whammy, before hitting the sunny beach towns of Raglan and Tauranga this weekend, with dates to follow in Ōtautahi, Ōtepoti, Pōneke, and Whangārei.
Tickets on sale now at undertheradar.co.nz
The band have also announced an Australian run for late January / early February 2026.
No strangers to Australia, Dick Move have shared stages with Amyl & The Sniffers, Cosmic Psychos, C.O.F.F.I.N, and The Chats, and torn through festivals including Dark Mofo (Hobart), BIGSOUND (Brisbane), River Rocks (Geelong), Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival, and Psyched As (Sydney) – and they’re looking forward to coming back armed with their latest release Dream, Believe, Achieve.
Dream, Believe, Achieve is out digitally, on vinyl and CD via 1:12 Records and Flying Nun Records.
Photo Credit: Frances Carter
