OFF WITH THE FAIRIES describes someone who is not quite all there - floating between reality and another place, present in body but absent in mind. The term ‘fairy’ can also mean something else entirely.Destrends know exactly what they're doing with this title.OFF WITH THE FAIRIES is the Melbourne band’s debut album, releasing on 13 March 2026. Shifting between chaotic garage rock and expansive post-punk, the album moves with intent as it works through the friction of functioning in the modern age. These songs don’t ask for sympathy.The album doesn't resolve things. It documents them.Latest single ‘Hearts in the Smokers’ captures Destrends at their most immediate. The track turns fleeting Melbourne pub moments into a sharp garage punk stinger. Name-checking Brunswick St and Smith St with unapologetic local pride, it’s a song that wears its Melbourne heart on its sleeve.

Elsewhere on the album, the band moves through the disorientation of gender and attraction, sourceless shame, and the exhaustion of performing wellness. Straight untangles identity without landing anywhere tidy. Shame takes that quiet internal weight and turns it into something you can shout along to. Mindfulness is the sound of someone done pretending wellness is working. The pull between dissociation and reclamation runs through all of it.Frontman Matt Savage moves between a signature low baritone and a raspy, full-throated delivery that makes his frustrations feel like yours. Alongside Billy Watts (guitar), Angus Ingram (bass), and Liam Burgan (drums), Destrends are a band that move as one, and OFF WITH THE FAIRIES has them firing on all cylinders.Named by The Underground Sound as one of Australia's bands to watch in 2026, Destrends have sold out national tours and supported the likes of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Spiderbait, building a fanbase that arrived largely on its own terms..Breakthrough single Straight, featured on this album, has surpassed half a million global streams, spreading through organic listener discovery without heavy industry backing.