Fantasy
With technology making it cheaper and easier to record hours of sonic experiments, it\'s no wonder musicians often have side projects to accompany their main groups. Vancouver\'s Amber Webber and Josh Wells still keep commitments with their other band Black Mountain while they explore vintage synthesizers and cheesy electronic beats on their third studio album as Lightning Dust. The warm melodies of previous LD albums are still heard on tunes such as \"Mirror,\" but the beats here will sound familiar to anyone who owned a cheap keyboard back in the \'80s. That Webber and Wells can take those less-than-optimal sounds and turn them into something interesting says much for their arrangement abilities, as there\'s nothing cheap about the results. \"Moon\" brings an acoustic guitar to make contact with their alternate selves, but \"Fire Me Up,\" \"Loaded Gun,\" and \"Never Again\" thrive in electronic spaces, with \"In the City Tonight\" capturing a warmth within the somber tones and graceful harmonies.
The duo consisting of Black Mountain vocalist Amber Webber and drummer Joshua Wells has had a certain amount in common with Webber's main outfit, with tinges of doomy, occasionally inscrutable, psychedelia. Their third album adds electronics and slicker production to the mix.
Amber Webber and Joshua Wells' third album is one with an identity strong enough to banish any thoughts of this being a mere Black Mountain side project.
On the go since 2007, Lightning Fantasy's boy-girl duo of Amber Webber and Josh Wells of Black Mountain – singer and producer resepectively – have evolved through two previous albums, incarnations that saw them characterised as a dreamy folk-pop duo on 2007's eponymous debut, and an experimental pop band on 2009's Infinite Light. On Fantasy, Wells has chosen to create a suite of tracks using the MPC 2000, lending the album a common vibe to fellow Canadian synth-pop innovators such as Purity Ring
The third album from Black Mountain members Amber Webber and Joshua Wells takes a stylistic turn, tossing their sparse psychedelia to the wind in favor of aloof synthpop.