Lightning Dust have announced a new album. The Vancouver-founded electropop duo of Amber Webber and Joshua Wells have announced Nostalgia Killer, due out June 9 via Western Vinyl. A video for the single "Run" is out now.
A press release notes that Webber and Wells, who were a longtime romantic couple, broke up in 2019 but decided to continue the band. They recorded the album in their respective home studios, Webber in Vancouver and Wells in Chicago. They performed nearly everything on the album themselves, save for some guitar by Rob Butterfield and strings by Meredith Bates.
The single "Run" comes with a music video, co-created with Tyler McLeod, which serves as the band's love letter to East Vancouver. Webber said in a statement:
"Run" is about the determination to keep moving forward and loving hard. To convey this, I highlighted my favourite aspects of the city of Vancouver, with some of my favourite humans as characters (Juliana Moore, Joshua Anderson, Adrian Mciness, Chris Haslam). I chose to use rats because Vancouver's got a special kinda grit to it that I think a city rat embodies perfectly. With the chugging movement of the song, rats on skateboards were a no brainer — plus it's so fun! Much like the feelings I felt at the time of writing the song, I was lost, with little faith left. Like the rat, estranged from her pack and forced to adventure on her own. Similar to my own story, with the help of a new friendship, the lost rat is reunited and reconciled with her old world.
Watch the video below. Nostalgia Killer is available to pre-order here.
Lightning Dust's most recent album was 2019's Spectre. They released the EP Material Life in 2020. They both left their roles in Black Mountain a few years ago, but Webber has since rejoined.
Nostalgia Killer:
1. Wrecked
2. Run
3. Rapids and Rivers
4. I Do
5. Fallen New
6. Different War
7. Feel That
8. Only You
9. 7 Year War
10. Shadow of Verona
A press release notes that Webber and Wells, who were a longtime romantic couple, broke up in 2019 but decided to continue the band. They recorded the album in their respective home studios, Webber in Vancouver and Wells in Chicago. They performed nearly everything on the album themselves, save for some guitar by Rob Butterfield and strings by Meredith Bates.
The single "Run" comes with a music video, co-created with Tyler McLeod, which serves as the band's love letter to East Vancouver. Webber said in a statement:
"Run" is about the determination to keep moving forward and loving hard. To convey this, I highlighted my favourite aspects of the city of Vancouver, with some of my favourite humans as characters (Juliana Moore, Joshua Anderson, Adrian Mciness, Chris Haslam). I chose to use rats because Vancouver's got a special kinda grit to it that I think a city rat embodies perfectly. With the chugging movement of the song, rats on skateboards were a no brainer — plus it's so fun! Much like the feelings I felt at the time of writing the song, I was lost, with little faith left. Like the rat, estranged from her pack and forced to adventure on her own. Similar to my own story, with the help of a new friendship, the lost rat is reunited and reconciled with her old world.
Watch the video below. Nostalgia Killer is available to pre-order here.
Lightning Dust's most recent album was 2019's Spectre. They released the EP Material Life in 2020. They both left their roles in Black Mountain a few years ago, but Webber has since rejoined.
Nostalgia Killer:
1. Wrecked
2. Run
3. Rapids and Rivers
4. I Do
5. Fallen New
6. Different War
7. Feel That
8. Only You
9. 7 Year War
10. Shadow of Verona
