Dream Into Dust - The Lathe of Heaven
Reviewed by ryan
Disguising noise-collages as pop songs, Dream Into Dust – while barely registering a blip on the popular music radar screen – have a knack for mixing and mending what sounds like an entire record collection into a singular coherent album. The Lathe of Heaven, the latest full-length from this three-piece, rearranges stringed instruments and samples with a rock band’s more typical instruments of guitar, bass and drums. The result is an album that is riddled with tape manipulations in a fashion that brings the darkness of industrial music to the hooks of pop and the strings of an orchestra to the crunch of rock. Dream Into Dust form a sound that’s interesting and original, yet accessible enough to still be built on the skeleton of pop music. But however different The Lathe of Heaven may be, they simply don’t vary their sound enough on their latest release. With honing and fine tuning their sound, Dream Into Dust could develop material that is entirely appealing instead. But, for now, The Lathe of Heaven sounds good for a few tracks, then just settles into being tiring. [www.dreamintodust.com]