Faker Announce Long-Awaited Return With New Single, 'Comet'

14 years to the day since their last album, Faker are back, with frontman Nathan Hudson (aka Nate Faker) celebrating his birthday by officially kicking things off again with the fresh single, Comet.

Rising to fame in the early ‘00s, the Sydney alt rock outfit were hard to ignore, with their catchy songs and frenetic live performances making them staples of every teenage summer soundtrack.

Cuts like Hurricane and This Heart Attack were beloved tunes of the era, with the latter reaching the top ten on the ARIA charts, and hit No. 5 in triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2007.

While 2005's Addicted Romantic album and 2007's Be The Twilight both brought with them acclaim and award nominations, Faker's third album – 2011's Get Loved – was met with a muted response, and two years later, Hudson announced the group had split.

A reformation took place in 2020, and the band made their return to live stages in 2022, though no new music had arrived until now.

The drought has officially come to and end, however, with Hudson sharing Comet as the first taste of Faker's forthcoming album, Enjoy Your Problems.

“It’s about a comet crashing down into the middle of your street, home, neighbourhood, town, and life and trying to stand your ground, even though it feels ridiculous to do so,” Hudson says of the single. “It’s about what the world is at the moment, and trying to find an optimistic spin. Ultimately, we’re surviving.

“Sometimes you can see the comet coming, and there’s no point running, you just have to face it.”

In the aftermath of Faker's highs, Hudson admits to being enveloped by the lows, with time spent wandering global cities as he worked odd jobs and studied film making being complemented by a constant call back to the world of music amidst struggles relating to identity, neurodivergence, and the challenges of starting again.

This return also resulted in a new project dubbed Map Of Stars, where he would live in a different city for a month at a time, assembling a band and writing and recording two songs in each city. One of those songs will appear on the new album, though no release date has been confirmed yet.

Faker will be returning to the live stage next year as well, with a series of headline dates set to be announced in the near future.