Lightning Dust - Infinite Light (2009) MP3 V0

Lightning Dust - Infinite Light (2009) MP3 V0

Infinite Light is the second album by Canadian indie rock band Lightning Dust, released August 4, 2009.

Compared to the duo that made their debut back in 2007, the Lightning Dust of 2009's Infinite Light sound just a touch gentler, more meditative, and smoothed out around the edges. Their sophomore full-length is full of sleek string arrangements (especially on "Dreamer") and graced with a heavy handful of computerized drumbeats and reverb effects; in other words, it's just as stark and strange as the duo's debut, only more elegantly dressed. Lightning Dust also sound quite a bit like the Handsome Furs on this release -- something that can be chalked up to a combination of gritty synthesizers, oily drum machines, and lead singer Amber Webber's hungry croon

Amber Webber's broken-warbled vibrato is thick and sour-sweet like buttermilk, wobbly as a warped record, bumpy as the soft-hard ridges of a curved spine. The Vancouver singer/multi-instrumentalist who sidelines as Lightning Dust with fellow Black Mountaineer Joshua Wells, lends single-slug words "hand" and "sea" a dozen extra syllables and a line like "this city is in a panic" a waving-or-drowning inscrutability. Throughout Lightning Dust's second LP, Infinite Light, Webber's on the verge of tears-- or laughter, depending on how her voice finds you-- and her raw emotion makes for one of the fiercest, most stirring vocal performances of any release this year.

Track Listing

1. "Antonia Jane" 3:06
2. "I Knew" 2:31
3. "Dreamer" 3:46
4. "The Times" 2:17
5. "Never Seen" 4:57
6. "History" 2:48
7. "Honest Man" 2:22
8. "Waiting on the Sun to Rise" 4:03
9. "Wondering What Everyone Knows" 3:09
10. "Take It Home" 6:04