Midnight Oil PRE-ORDER: - Diesel and Dust (Vinyl LP)

RELEASE DATE: December 6, 2025

Artist

Midnight Oil

Album

Diesel and Dust 

Year

2025

Format

Vinyl, LP, reissue

Diesel and Dust, produced by Warne Livesey and the band, has been remastered and comes on black biovinyl in FSC certified packaging. First released in August 1987, it is a concept album about the struggles of Indigenous Australians and environmental causes, issues important to the band.

This is the band’s sixth album and drew inspiration from the Blackfella/Whitefella Tour of remote Indigenous communities with the Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland in 1986. In 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No. 13 on their list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s. In October 2010 it was listed at No. 1 in the book 100 Best Australian Albums.

Tracklisting

Side A

1. Beds Are Burning
2. Put Down That Weapon
3. Dreamworld
4. Arctic World
5. Warakurna
   

Side B

1. The Dead Heart
2. Whoah
3. Bullroarer
4. Sell My Soul
5. Sometimes