Lightning Dust is an Alt/Indie album by Lightning Dust, originally released in 2007. On Gatefold: 4 pressings tracked.
About
Vancouver’s Lightning Dust is a sibling band to the heavier psych-rock outfit Black Mountain, comprised of two key players from that band working on a more ethereal, ghostly plane. Keyboardist Joshua Wells and vocalist Amber Webber (both also featured in Pink Mountaintops) take a completely different route on this side project debut, exploring a more sensual, folkier sound. It’s all mood here, tracks flowing like cheap red wine and tambourines flickering like candles at the end of their wick. The instrumentation is sparse, and most songs — save for the nearly giddy guilty pleasure that is “Wind Me Up” — have a somber tone, driven by Webber’s haunting, warm voice. “Take Me Back” is a creeper, Webber’s quivering vocals floating atop sustained organ notes and ominous, reverb-dipped guitar notes, feeling like a ‘60s relic dug up from a woozy, late-night session with Buffy Sainte-Marie, while the harrowing “Jump In” (featuring Wells’ vocals) carries the same weight as a Leonard Cohen song-poem of love to the end.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Listened On2:43
- A2When You Go2:49
- A3Wind Me Up1:39
- A4Take Me Back3:50
- A5Jump In2:22
- A6Heaven3:37
Side B
- B1Castles And Caves5:24
- B2Highway2:50
- B3Breathe3:19
- B4Days Go By4:21
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Indie Rock
- jangly
- wistful
- pastoral
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Recorded [...] in the summer and fall of 2006 at the Argyle Hotel and Smurf House.
Mixed at the Hive [...]
This record could not have been made without equipment borrowed from Victor Wells, Stephen McBean and Shira Blustein. Thank you beautiful children.
"Days Go By" was written for Ashley Shadow Webber.
Jagjaguwar
Track durations are not listed on the release.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Amber WebberARRANGED BY, CONDUCTOR ARRANGED BY, CONDUCTOR, LYRICS BY, MUSIC BY ARRANGED BY, LYRICS BY, MUSIC BY, PERFORMER
- Joshua WellsARRANGED BY, CONDUCTOR
- Cris DerksenCELLO
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 4 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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