work in the studio in early 2011. Dust was officially announced in June 2011 via the band's website and Facebook page as the title of the new album. The album cover and track listing were released in July 2011 and pre-release copies were released on 20 July on the band's online shop. It was officially released elsewhere on 8 August. The band spoke to Mary Ann Kennedy about the album in a live nine-minute interview on BBC Radio Scotland on 24 August. Dust was the first studio album by Peatbog Faeries to be released in a digipak, and the second Peatbog Faeries album to do so whatsoever, after Live. As with all Peatbog Faeries album, small descriptions for the songs can be found in the liner notes. The album cover, which incorporates an artwork entitled It's Magic, is strikingly similar to the cover of Evil Heat by Primal Scream. Dust clocks in at over sixty minutes and is the second longest Peatbog Faeries studio album, behind Faerie Stories which is approximately seven minutes longer, and their third longest album overall after Live which lasts seventy-six minutes long. Production Recording The band hired long time co-producer Calum McLean to produce the album who later described working on the album as "the best musical experience of [his] life." The band "wanted to bring a bit more of the live feel to the album and that [listeners] could also really hear the band playing". The music on the album had been "gathered up" for two or three years prior to the album, as the band wanted to be in a situation where they had "an excess of material to choose from". The melodies were written by band members Peter Morrison and Peter Tickell who would meet up in several locations on the band's native Isle of Skye, mostly in Orbost, and try out ideas, this location forming the first part of the album's recording. The band prioritised live takes as the starting point for the album. The new fiddle player Peter Tickell had been depping for his predecessor Adam Sutherland for approximately four years, so his turn as the successor to Sutherland was described as "natural" by the band. Tickell writes a large variety of music, which encompasses a lot styles, and the band had "masses of tunes to choose from" that he put forward. Tickell was also noted as bringing a standard