D.U.S.T.
From the Sublime to the Obscene
By Coreen Wolanski

This first effort from D.U.S.T. certainly won’t be swept under the carpet anytime too soon. Oh what refreshing sounds to my ears is this. It has been a long time since I’ve gotten this excited about a disc so quickly; by the third song I already wanted to go back to the beginning of the CD and start it again. The songs are ridiculously catchy, incorporating that ’80s pop song feel with a more current, abrasive edge. The vocal work, courtesy of Mikey, is certainly the driving force behind this debut album’s 11 songs. Alternating between melodic and moody, the songs will appeal to fans of Echo and the Bunnymen (or many other English pop acts prominent in the ’80s). This English group seems to take everything that was so grand about ’80s pop music, leave the crappy bits behind and update it all to make their brand of delicious alternative synth-rock. A nice melding of guitar rock, electronics and straight ahead pop, D.U.S.T. seems to know just what left-of-centre listeners are craving these days. They’ve thankfully showed us that the riff is still alive, pop music isn’t all just fluff and the keyboard is as important an instrument as anything else. (Wasp Factory)
5ive - The Telestic Disfracture
Airport 5 - Tower in the Fountain of Sparks
Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be On Time
Alien Crime Syndicate - XL From Coast To Coast
Angelic Upstarts - Live From The Justice League
Ashby - Power Ballads
Ativin - Interiors
Atomic Cosmonaut - A Strange Planet
Auburn Lull - Alone I Admire
Bad Luck 13 Riot Extravaganza - Live At The Dungeon
Ballboy - Club Anthems
Barzin - Barzin
Birdie - Triple Echo
Bodies - Firepower is Our Business
Boylion - Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Select, Start
Brando - Single Crown Postcard
Carry On - A Life Less Plagued
Charles Webster - Born on the 24th of July
Chronics - Make You Move
Cleats - Lost Voices, Broken Strings
Clinic - Walking With Thee
Club 8 - Spring Came, Rain Fell
Dargaard - The Dissolution of Eternity
Downbelows - 416 Songs
FiftyWattHead - Volume One
Filthy Thieving Bastards - A Melody Of Retreads And Broken Quills
Forstella Ford - Quietus
Gasoline - Take it to the People
Ghost Orchids - Architecture
Good Life - Black Out
Half-Handed Cloud - Learning About Your Scale
Handsome Devil - Loves and Kisses From the Underground
Headstrong - Headstrong
Hope Conspiracy - File 03
Jordy Birch - Fun Machine
Julie Doiron - Heart and Crime
Justin Bird - Glatisant
Lost Prophets - The Fake Sound Of Progress
Maggie Connell - The Luxury Of Sadness
Radiation4 - Radiation4
Robert Pollard & His Soft Rock Renegades - Choreographed Man of War
Saetia - A Retrospective
Saxon - Killing Ground
Scott Garth - Scott Garth
Tallman - Mechanism
Tobin Sprout - Demos & Outtakes
Transmatic - Transmatic
Until the End - Blood In the Ink
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