No names, no faces, just grooves.

Dusk Dept. is a seven-piece collective emerging from the deep corners of the modern funk underground…a shadowy convergence of musicians whose fingerprints can be found on the grooves of Ghost-Note, Dumpstaphunk, Snarky Puppy, Daryl Johns, and other heavy hitters in the lineage of rhythm.

Formed unofficially from the raging of late night sessions that transformed into full-fledged studio recordings, Dusk Dept. keeps its members hidden beneath black hoods, trading ego & resumes for atmosphere, and identity for collective creating. Onstage, the robes blur every boundary…between player and audience, between band and ritual, between now and the memory of some older recording that felt cutting edge that you just discovered that you now can’t remember.

Their debut, a self-titled album arriving this May 2026 on Ear Up Records (founded by Jeff Coffin of the Dave Matthews Band), sounds like the meeting point of the sacred and the filthy; analog funk baptized in mystery. Seven players. Seven voices. One department in charge of the night shift.

Dusk Dept. doesn’t announce itself. It appears… an injection of brass, a thump of bass, a silhouette under dim lights. Then it’s gone, leaving behind only sweat, grooves, and questions.