Fantasy

Fantasy

With technology making it cheaper and easier to record hours of sonic experiments, it's no wonder musicians often have side projects to accompany their main groups. Vancouver's Amber Webber and Josh Wells still keep commitments with their other band Black Mountain while they explore vintage synthesizers and cheesy electronic beats on their third studio album as Lightning Dust. The warm melodies of previous LD albums are still heard on tunes such as "Mirror," but the beats here will sound familiar to anyone who owned a cheap keyboard back in the '80s. That Webber and Wells can take those less-than-optimal sounds and turn them into something interesting says much for their arrangement abilities, as there's nothing cheap about the results. "Moon" brings an acoustic guitar to make contact with their alternate selves, but "Fire Me Up," "Loaded Gun," and "Never Again" thrive in electronic spaces, with "In the City Tonight" capturing a warmth within the somber tones and graceful harmonies.

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