Brooklyn based artist Dirt Buyer shares new single 'Baseball'.
Photo Credit: Victoria Baczynska
Following the announcement of their latest LP Dirt Buyer III last month, Dirt Buyer, the project of Brooklyn-based artist Joe Sutkowski, have revealed the album’s third cut and record opener, ‘Baseball’. Dirt Buyer III arrives February 6th on Bayonet. Listen to ‘Baseball’ HERE & watch the video HERE.
“Baseball/ Is somethin’/ I’ll never get, but I/ Sleep on it/ Wake up/ And try again,” Joe Sutkowski coos over a loping-then-roaring distorted guitar. But of course, anyone familiar with the emotional depths of Dirt Buyer’s music knows Sutkowski isn’t simply singing about America’s favorite pastime. “It’s about growing up with certain expectations and adhering to them for no reason other than doing what you’re told,” Sutkowski explains. “The song is about gaining autonomy and independence.” In its opening moments, Dirt Buyer III goes back to origin stories, to disconnects hard-wired in childhood, to set up an album that, from there, is a visceral document of navigating the same trials in adulthood.
The third LP from Brooklyn-based artist Joe Sutkowski, Dirt Buyer III was announced alongside first single ‘Get To Choose’. The track generated an enthusiastic response across critics, earning best of the week write ups from Stereogum and Paste, who called it "one of the best rock songs of the year" and included it on their Best Songs of 2025 list, and praise from Alternative Press and BrooklynVegan among others.
In the same way there was a sonic leap from the homemade recordings of Dirt Buyer to the moderate studio polish of Dirt Buyer II, Sutkowski’s music has again undergone a logical but substantial evolution between albums. The bones are the same: ragged acoustic guitars, electric riffs chiming autumnally then caustic and overdriven, drums staggering forward with the same desperate pace with which Sutkowski passed through these years. Then, his voice above it all: plaintive, weaving, breaking at times and finding new power in others. Buoyed by the bulletproof structures of these songs and more muscular production, Dirt Buyer III presents the fullest, most immersive version of Sutkowski’s sound yet.
A Brooklyn-based musician who has released two well-regarded albums under the name Dirt Buyer, while becoming a familiar face in independent music circles, Sutkowski has appeared as a live member of This Is Lorelei and shared stages with artists like Horse Jumper of Love, Greg Freeman, and fantasy of a broken heart.
Album Artwork
