Everyday Dust - The Relic Room
Released: July 19 Everyday Dust’s latest release has the appearance of an album but actually is more than that. The Relic Room is the beginning of an archive of sorts, initially starting off with ten tracks that were recorded sometime between the late 90s and the present day. Much of these are those pieces an artist would come up with as an exercise or maybe a few things that didn’t quite fit on an album. Essentially, this release aims to be a sort-of ongoing b-sides album of forgotten treasures. Now, even with being a patchwork of old tracks, the vibes remain fairly consistent even if some tracks show their age a little more with finely aged tape saturation. The initial ten tracks are a bit of a grab bag of different ideas, but there are a few that stood out to me in particular. “The Impossibility of Everything” begins with a rather muted bit of ambience that slowly sweeps in to be later joined by a rather exciting and tense-ish melodic arpeggio. It feels reminiscent of something...
