Fust

Fust began life as a solo project for South Carolina songwriter Aaron Dowdy, who combines raw, occasionally painful experiences of life in the southern United States with a literary sensibility in his lyrics. It's now a sturdy band collaborating with some critical darlings of the 2020s indie scene and earning critical plaudits with albums like 2023's Genevieve and 2025's Big Ugly. Dowdy's storytelling bent comes from a life lived in Appalachia; born in West Virginia in 1992 and raised in Bristol, Virginia, he began writing and self-recording his own music at the age of 11. Ov...