Dead Tongues - Dust

Dead Tongues - DustDust is the fifth album from The Dead Tongues, the folk project of the North Carolina based songwriter and multi instrumentalist Ryan Gustafson. Written in a near fever dream of inspiration in a rural expanse of western North Carolina, Dust combines folk and jam band spaciousness with overgrown nature imagery and ego death. It's an identity crisis caught on tape, an exploration of how turning away from your art can be the thing that ultimately leads

the 10 tracks blend true heavy metal with pop and rock-vibes

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The piece explores the use of fantasy as a survival mechanism against loneliness

” The Police’s “Every Breath You Take

that he was leaving the band to focus on raising his family

"Fresh" is a gloriously disco-kissed track that finds Elizabeth Sankey on lead vocals (file next to that Classixx jam featuring LCD Soundsystem's Nancy Whang) while Jeremy Warmsley provides backups and busy guitar

including an explosive collaboration with Travis Barker and Aimee Interrupter of The Interrupters

this LP is a must-have for both longtime fans and new listeners

thanks to the collaborative efforts of acclaimed producers Oliver Leiber

Grandfather Courage is the acoustic version of my album White Jesus Black Problems

he led the early 2000 shag-carpet art-punk of Manishevitz

Úlfúð's first full-length is a masterclass in songcraft