Lightning Dust Announce Infinite Light, Offer First MP3

May 28, 2009, 08:42 PM

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Jagjaguwar are extremely pleased to present the first glimpse of Lightning Dust's sophomore album, Infinite Light (Released Aug. 4 in the US and Aug. 3 in the UK), an album that ups the ante of the band's minimalist, self-titled debut and lays to waste any "side project" chatter. There is a light on the other side of the black mountain, and it glows in the hearts of Vancouver duo Amber Webber and Joshua Wells. As Lightning Dust, the pair harness a gentler sound than as founding members of Black Mountain, though this sound is no less loaded with tension and an enviable fluency in the most classic of psych-rock.

Infinite Light, Lightning Dust's finds Webber and Wells calling upon the powers of classic pop arrangements and making the most of five days with a Steinway Grand piano. While Webber and Wells met through their involvement in what they described as two of the saddest bands in Canada, the songs written for Infinite Light found the two moving away from the uniformly downbeat. Rather, the songs were more suited to lush and melodramatic arrangements. Cue the strings. Lightning Dust have delivered a cosmic record about the adventure in finding love and the journey in losing and rediscovering "the light."

While Infinite Light is definitely more layered and lush than previous efforts, Lightning Dust's minimal aesthetic works well in the economy of musical theater, an influence for the record, wherein each song's movements aim to be more inspiring than the one before it. And this is suiting in that Infinite Light is a nod to "the light of inspiration" that inspires us to keep dancing, creating and loving in spite of an encroaching darkness. It's a reminder that what makes the mountains so very, very black is a distant light somewhere on the other side.

First mp3 "I Knew" is a shining example of the fuller, charging sounds of Infinite Light. The song is absolutely shot out of a cannon, driven by the ping/thud pulse and crusty keyboards of Suicide and taken to flight by the Fleetwood Mac chorus your heart belts on the drive home after that first, anxious make-out session. It's a blazing, triumph of a song that permanently cauterizes any notion of Lightning Dust as a side project.


Meanwhile, Lightning Dust are at the comet-tail-end of a North American tour of which they spent the first leg opening for Bonnie Prince Billy. A pair of West Coast live dates remain:

5/27 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court w/ Cotton Jones
5/29 Seattle, WA - Triple Door w/ Cotton Jones

The band will tour North America and the UK in the fall in support of Infinite Light. See a listing of all current live dates here.

Download mp3 "I Knew"

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