Dubinski – Back To Basics
Dubinski continues to carve out their place in the indie rock scene with heartfelt songwriting and a compelling backstory. After sharing their second album, What Is Your Definition Of Happiness (Gnu Roam label, July 2025) on the 19th of November, 2025, the band has shared the powerful standalone single Back To Basics.
Their debut self-titled album was also released on the Gnu Roam label in 2022.
From their beginnings as four brothers growing up in North Yorkshire, to their move through rural Scotland in Glenlivet, Speyside, and eventual home in Edinburgh, the group has built a journey as rich as their music. The brothers are four inseparable siblings, Eugene, Fergus, Donal, and Eoin Gaine. Dubinski is taken from their late mother’s maiden name.
Stream Back To Basics. You might be familiar with Dubinski already, as I have posted them before on the JIR Tumblr site, and they were featured in some of my previous Rebjukebox playlists.
Lyrics
I’m feeling safer inside,
But still, I’ve been forewarned.
Am I as crazy as I always thought I was?
And so I search for a sign,
Like the first time that I knew I’d overcome
What the demon held and waved right in my face.
Or the last time that I had to let you know
That I could take it or leave it.
Or that one time that I asked for you to show,
So that I’d better believe it.
I wanna eat well, I wanna sleep well,
Discipline my body, achieve a state of mind.
And if I stay up late, no one to feel my pain,
I’m gonna dip my body into an ice-cold lake.
The meat clings to the bone—
You tell me this for a reason.
There’s a furnace that burns hotter than the sun.
I think I’m accident-prone,
Like the first time that I knew I’d took too much,
It was too late and there was nothing I could do.
I was three steps too far in front of myself,
Thought I was having a moment.
Still, there’s comfort in this hand upon my chest—
I’m going back to basics.
I wanna eat well, I wanna sleep well,
Discipline my body, achieve a state of mind.
And if I stay up late, no one to feel my pain,
I’m gonna dip my body into an ice-cold lake.
My worries are a constant and now part of my design,
Shining, but the core is rotten deep to the inside.
Stronger with each question that I ask—
Is this enough to take?
I’m going back to the basics, but I don’t think I can face it.
I will learn to utilise, the clock strikes one,
And now I know I can shake it.
I wanna eat well, I wanna sleep well,
Discipline my body, achieve a state of mind.
And if I stay up late, no one to feel my pain,
I’m gonna dip my body into an ice-cold lake.
I’m going back to the basics, and I’m gonna embrace it.
Going back to the basics—always knew I would make it.
Going back to the basics—now I know I can shake it.
Going back to the basics,
Going back to the basics.
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