Forming in 2025, the Meanjin duo features saxophone/woodwind player Andrew Garton (Ghostwoods, The Francis Wolves, The Scornful Four), alongside Andrew Foley (Grids/Units/Planes, YEARNS).

Together, their music combines glitchy, downbeat electronica with the fringes of jazz.

Dual Dialect’s first EP, 'Wild Plants Cover the Abandoned Nuclear Site', evokes a strange narrative. Saxophone melodies unfurl like strange vines and beats crumble like decaying concrete structures.

The instrumental EP abstractly explores themes of Pripyat, Ukraine. In 1986, the city was poisoned from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and then deserted. Today, nature has reclaimed the ruins, with green plants and wildlife engulfing the industrial landscape.

In our contemporary backdrop with oppressive leaders, divisive politics, and oligarchic systems - cultivating organic forms of creativity and resistance are essential. Dual Dialect’s music embodies this ethos; blurring raw, glitch-hop beats and manipulated brass/woodwind melodies into untamed, meandering soundscapes of defiance and renewal.