Album Review - Lightning Dust: "Infinite Light"

About a third of the way through Infinite Light, you realize that you aren't going to be able to pin down Lightning Dust to any one prevailing style or influence. The composer(s) are resourceful and seem to draw from a number of popular influences, including (but by no means limited to) electro-pop, musical theatre, lovelorn pop auteurs like (albeit less cynical than) Stephin Merritt, even Saucerful of Secrets era Pink Floyd, as on the last track "Take It Home." The lean orchestrations of chamber pop collide noticeably with a dramatic ambition worthy of thicker instrumentation--but this isn't a let down at all, it actually works wonderfully. The singer's voice is ghostlike with it's tense and rapidfire vibrato, which contributes to the sense of emotional urgency prevalent throughout the album. Infinite Light is a grandly modest work, and well worth checking out. 8/10

Infinite Light - Lightning Dus...