Lightning Dust
Lightning Dust
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | Listened On | Lightning Dust | 2:43 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | When You Go | Lightning Dust | 2:49 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Wind Me Up | Lightning Dust | 1:39 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Take Me Back | Lightning Dust | 3:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Jump In | Lightning Dust | 2:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Heaven | Lightning Dust | 3:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Castles and Caves | Lightning Dust | 5:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Highway | Lightning Dust | 2:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Breathe | Lightning Dust | 3:19 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Days Go By | Lightning Dust | 4:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Booklet Digital Booklet - Lightning Dust | Lightning Dust | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| Total: 11 Items |
iTunes Review
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.
Recent Customer Reviews
conjured up memories of listening to Jefferson starship as a child
by Gabriel50Lightening Dust, Black Mountain and Pink Moutaintops, for one, are great names and two accent the different talents of each of the artists. It is worthwhile to get some songs from each of theses groups. Their voices and the mood of the music cause you to want to concentrate closely to what they are saying. They are great story tellers. The group needs to come to Columbus Ohio.
Listen On
by PhiloHagenYeah, I listened on, drawn in by the cover art to surround myself in Lightning Dust. Haunting vocals, the electrically charged thickness in the night chilled air, the harmonies, leading me to do a little research. Who the hell are these people? Lightning Dust is a side project of Amber Webber and Joshua Wells from Black Mountain. It starts to make more sense, no? Committing themselves to a more simplistic approach the pair decided to escape the comforts of their familiar instruments and writing styles, delivering these minimal, moody and spacious arrangements. It's as if the Log Lady from Twin Peaks wanders in to warn us the owls are not what they seem, and we thank our lucky stars for it. Ignore the misleading "rock" classification and while "it's pretty dark here in these tunnels that lead us into nothing," I remain excited to simply be on their journey. I give it five stars after scrapping the delightfully well done yet seemingly out of place "Wind Me Up," opting instead to settle in for the long haul.
Biography
Formed: Vancouver, British Columbia, Cana
Genre: Prog-Rock/Art Rock
Years Active: '00s
Top Albums and Songs by Lightning Dust
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | I Knew | Infinite Light | 2:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Antonia June | Infinite Light | 3:05 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Listened On | Lightning Dust | 2:43 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | I Knew | I Knew - Single | 2:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | The Times | Infinite Light | 2:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
- $9.99
- Genres: Rock, Music, Alternative, Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock
- Released: Jun 19, 2007
- ℗ 2007 Jagjaguwar
